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It was actually -10. Notice the snow!
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a cold day in hell
Are pigs flying?
Their frying.Well, at least your trying.
Thanks for not judging me -- I'm not my type.No problem. I know you’re all just hype.
It things don’t change, well all be sighing.
You fools these are degrees in kernel.
*takes shellacked mackarel and THWACKS!!!! Bakerman repeatedly until he is not recognizable*
There. That oughta teach you a lesson.
Physics Fail… Kelvin…
Popcorn fail.
Maybe he just wanted to Potter around on the thread?
sense of humor fail…
No you fail, because 119 degrees Kelvin equals:
-154.15 degrees Celsius
-245.47 degrees Fahrenheit
214 degrees Rankine
-123.32 degrees Réaumur
…and that settles it. next fail plz
Sorry sir, but you failed a bit yourself. Kelvin cannot be described with “degrees.” It is just 119 Kelvin.
Excellent, sir! Excellent!
No, LordNakhlan. The more modern convention is not to bother saying “degrees”, nor writing the degree sign, but it is merely old-fashioned to do so; not wrong.
you fail, because kelvin doesn’t use the “degree” symbol
its only the number and a big “K”.
science fail….
1) Kelvin isn’t part of physics
2) Kelvin doesn’t use a degrees symbol, nor has it ever
3) 119K= -154.15 degrees Celsius
There, crying.
... were you talking about swine flew?Red Bull gives you wiiiiiiiiiiiiings!
... are you talking about buffalo wings?*head tilts toward one shoulder*
I didn’t know that buffalo had wings.
No thanks. I don’t like buffalo. You have any chicken?
Umm… Well, I have some tuna. But make sure you recycle the cans so we can save the poor little tuna’s from extinction. (I know I spelled that wrong)
Little?
T-H-A-T… no, it’s spelled properly!
*agrees*
*gives BBB 10 internetz*
*takes away 8 of them for improper apostrophe use*
You are such a professor!!!
Heehee.
Hey, I still get 2 internets!!
*takes remaining two, snaps one and half, and gives half to bbb*
you were saying?
*THWACKS minty green person with shellacked mackerel*
Give those back to her!!!
*THWACKS back, but with a frozen salmon*
A)it’s lime green you dolt
B)i’d rather not
Good lord, the bugger thwacked Avis.
*ducks into bunker*
OMG!!!!
You gotta give the little booger snaps, though. He’s actually coming back after I broke his arm yesterday with my wooden spoon…
It looks minty on my screen. And …
*GLOWERS at said minty green individual ’til nothing but a puddle of goo is left*
That’s for calling me a dolt.
*THWACKS said puddle of goo with the non-shellacked half rotted whale*
That’s for not returning her internets.
what can i say? i eat lots of tyson
*takes bite out of chicken finger*
*THWACKS self with shellacked minnows for not closing that bold code*
*is now a puddle of goo and can not respond*
*squirms over to plate of chicken fingers*
*takes out vacuum cleaner*
*sucks up the mess*
*dumps contents of cleaner in vat of sulphuric acid*
There.
*bonds with sulfiric acid and becomes ten foot tall glob*
*engulfs bondfan*
like i said. lots of tyson
HELL FROZE OVER!!!! :O
Fahrenheit obviously sucks.
because this world is hell
Did they not have room for the “-” in front of the numbers?
They're trying to be less negative there.It’s deferred warmth?
It’s zen. That’s the temperature to which they raised their conscionsness level.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I love that you get that now!
*squeeze*
I may just watch this again now.
It gets better the more you watch it.
You will find that it makes for a fine quotable’s game fodder.
The book is a little tiring though.
I LOVE the book!
Murdered by pirates IS good!…I’ve got my wife to murder and Gilder to frame for it. I’m swamped!
Never go in against a sicilian when death is on the line, aha haha haha ha ha ha…..*thud*
anybody got a peanut?
I just so happens your friend is mostly dead…
The book is absolutely incredible, one of the best ever written, but you need to get the original version with the red print.
*makes note!*
You just wiggled your little finger, doesn’t that make you happy?
*waves* Have fun stormin’ the castle boys.
Do you think it will work?
It would take a miracle.
Jog his/her memory Fezig.
Maybe we’re missing the point.
^ A poignant,* if not punctilious* (let alone pugnacious*), punctual* and pungent* point* pertaining to punctuation.*
-----
*from the Latin pungere, "to pierce" as in, um, decimate.That packs an etymological punch.
*CLONKS*! For a dreadful pun.
**CLONKS* jinxed with golf club*
*peers over distance*
HOLE IN ONE!
It’s getting hot in here.
I don’t care what you say, my clothes are staying ON!!
Mine too! It may be warm there, but it’s COLD here!!!!
Fine. Where’s Ms B?
*streaks through thread*
Sissys!!!
*gasp*
That’s an interesting tattoo.
Why does it say YOUR NAME?
She didn’t think WoW was classy enough.
It is so I can see me in her pants.
Y’all have your clothes on???
Well, some of us don’t have a protective fur layer, skratty.
You haven’t seen some of the women I work with.
Ok, now I’m scared.
Or my sister-in-law.
*shudders*
Ouch! You win MS B. At least I can leave my furry ‘friend’ anytime I choose.
Yes you can.
~Well thank goodness it’s not as cold as it looks~
*moves the CUDDLE PUDDLE in new fail*
*TackleSqueezesLGBforAdoptingMe*
Thank you for adopting me Marius and LGB.
*Enters the CUDDLE PUDDLE*
Oooo! The temperature of the cuddle puddle is just right.
*adds 3 gallons of bubbles in cuddle puddle*
*slides in under bubbles*
*hopes the world outside cuddle puddle goes AWAY*
*pops back up to find world still there*
Okay, I need liquor. STAT!
↓↓↓↓
*ooooof!*
Tee-hee!
*tickletacklesqueeziesformynewsis*
So, what’s my name gonna be?
Just a suggestion. Little Girl Leila?
@ 5′ 1/2″ I like the ‘Little’ part but not sure it’s age appropriate.
Little Leila Bluius?
Marius and I will have to ponder. I’ll get back to you.
Cannonball!!!
*dives and squeezes all friends*
*slips out and slips into clothes*
…and you don’t even drink alcohol. How does this happen?
*snickers and tries to look stern*
*sigh*
People have always said my hair should be blonde.
You are in good company.
*squeeze*
It is, your just too blonde to realize it
GASP!
*pries the r away from your, inserts an apostrophe and adds an e at the end*
Wooohooo! *dives into CUDDLE PUDDLE*
*squeezes all the Failpeeps*
*rolls in large coffee maker/espresso machine/bar*
Even though it’s not as cold today, I still feel like a warm drink.
Today’s special is Chicago Times: Amaretto, Tuaca, Baileys and Godiva Chocolate Liqueur with Half Hot Chocolate and Coffee. Top with whipped cream.
I will have a pitcher of Baileys and Godiva Chocolate Liqueur.
Oh, did you get the pitcher part? It has to be a pitcher, k?
*shrugs*
OK, pitcher, got it.
*Sends Randy Johnson to Leila with Baileys and Godiva Chocolate Liqueur*
That might still work for her, I don’t know if she’s into sports though.
I h8 sports with a passion.
*sends the pitcher packing*
*keeps the drink*
Ooooohhhhhh! Wrong kind of pitcher!
*slides Leila a pitcher full of Baileys, and a pitcher full of Godiva Chocolate Liqueur*
YUMS!!!!! Thank you!!!!! Keep transmitteing those things. Don’t stop.
Um…if you have another one of “those” pitchers handy, Scotty, I’ll take it!
Hmmmm. I don’t know where Leila sent him packing to. Sorry. Have a *squeeze* instead.
*sigh*
The story of my life!
*SKA-WEEEEZE!*
I’ll have that drink now, please.
*Slides DW a Chicago Times*
Skal!
That’ll make the sun come out.
I’ll take one, GS!
Just passing through…work’s picking up this afternoon…*sigh*
Glad you were able to stop by. *buttery squeeze*
This will help work go by quicker.
*slids SuzieQ a Chicago Times*
Ooooh…thanky!!!
This should do the trick…only 2.5 hours to go…then it’s off to get the buttacalves…
*wiggledances into Cuddle Puddle*
I only have time for a quick visit, peeps, got tons of work to do, but I just had to stop by for a Cuddle Puddle Squeeze™ (yes, I registered it.)
*Jucy squeeze*
*returns jucy squeeze*
Hey, here’s one for Dragon when she stops in:
*jucy squeeze*
Later, peeps!
*quicksmurfysqueeze*
Don’t squeeze to hard else she will turn blue. Oh wait…
Aww….fanks, sweetie!
*schnuggles into warm squeeze*
Just what I needed!
119 Kelvin, maybe.
Absolutely.119 degrees Celsius?
Conversion fail.
Someone has lost his sence of humor.
*sense.
*see’s AA’s humor behind him*
Found it!!
*hands AA’s humor back to him*
It tickles more that I expected.
Your humo(u)r is too low to register on my scale.
I’ll get some leeches and see if we can’t remove the bad humors.
Yeah, he had a LOT of gall, saying that!
His what?
seance ... I know all about itWe’ve come a full 360 degrees.
*toggles DEG RAD GRA*
No, does not make sense either way.
You’ve got the arc of a diver.
Kelvin win!
Still warmer than here…. Grrrrr!
Here where?
Where, here?
There. There, wolf. There, castle.
Why are you talking like that?
Walk this way.
♪ Roll, roll, roll in za hay ♫
What knockers! Sankoo, Doctor.
If I could walk that way …
It’s not a fail this is a big protractor, not a thermometer.
Let’s not get into a protracted argument about this.
*tickle*
*pokes*
*pays*
:[
*giggles*
:[
*tackle squeeze*
*tickletacklesqueeze*
*tripletickletacklesqueeze*
*tripledogdareyoutickletacklesqueeze*
*terrifictripledogdareyoutickletacklesqueeze*
I’m inclined to agree.
That seems obtuse.
We may agree to disagree by degrees.Your just not looking at it in the right angle
callin' all angles
callin' all angles
we're tryin'
we're hopin'
we're hurtin'
we're lovin'
we're cryin'
we're callin'
...'cause we're not sure how this goesDon’t be obtuse.
Ouch. I did refresh first. Great minds Ms B!!
Oh, you’re such acute little Bopper!
You’re trying all the angles, Ms B.
*squeeze*
How right you are, LGB!
I’m actually pretty square.
it’s in KELVIN XD
Absolutely. NOT.Absolutely. Knot.
This is Phoenix and the white stuff happened during a drug bust. We are close to the border – common occurence.
Huh. Why are all the resturant managers grabbing straws and heading to Phoenix?
The c0cktail waitresses seem to be joining them!
(The restaurant I used to work in -as an expiditer- had a bit of a problem with the c0cktail waitresses, they were all on the blow for blow program)
HAHA!!! We shouldn’t bop their noses, they may literally fall off.
Blow for Blow program…Ahhh now I get it. It’s like 12 steps but on your knees.
*tilts head to the right*
Whaaaaaaa????
its a win! they try to make the people feel warm during that season.
That would be the season of salt.
Yesterday’s fence designer strikes again.
*snork!*
If all of us, meaning quite a lot of people, would die of famine/drowning, wouldn’t that mean that the climate change would happen, meaning you’d probably die too?
Ask the expert Mr Al Gore.
~Well thank you for your cheerful and sunny thought on the subject~
Can we PLEASE not turn this into another insanely long debate about politics? PLEASE!!!??!
That would be an ecumenical matter.
*sigh*
DRINK!
No! People need something else to argue about, since the one about God has dried out to almost nothing.
People probably got tired of having to go BACK something like 5 pages to find the dratted thing.
I always use the worm as debate.
I thought you liked a mass debate?
*tickles Jules’ worm*
*fleeswithaquickness*
I am getting some nibbles.
Quit baiting me.
I can’t help if you are a luring.
I sense something fishy is going on between those two
It may be a red herring.
I can’t help it if she has a nice bass.
did you catch her a delicious bass?
No, I was not able to tackle her in time.
It’s their degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon. They suck at the game.
It’s ‘Kevin’, not ‘Degrees Kevin’.
O, wait…
Kevin’s a girl?!?!
*stills calls her Kevin even after finding out she is female*
*lays two eggs*
The squeaky clean student gets degrees?!?
HAHAHA i love satire!
*tries to understand where this rant came from*
*fails*
*boops Again onna nose*
*skips away*
perhaps they are speaking in units of Kelvin?..
isn’t like one Kelvin the hottest temperature like ever…obviously i am well studied on the subject….*slips white lab coat back on and continues about the day*
Motion denied.
*slips AA a brownian lab coat and continues with hyper conduct**wonders how many more people are going to make the same bloody comment*
*offers Failpeeps a Newton*
Yellow labs are friendlier.
I’ve always been partial to black labs…
isn’t like zero Kelvin the coldest temperature like ever…
hehe
At zero Kelvin, all atomic motion stops. Below that it goes backward.
so when superman flew around the world super fast backwards he was actually just going below 0 kelvin and then devidedbyzeromyheadhurtsexplodingin3…2…1……*pop*
*puts head back together*
*noms extra braaaaiiiiinnnzzzz bits that won’t fit back in*
Kelvin comprehension fail
and thats why I am an art major
This is just an example of what Osama’s spokesman said the other day – Global Warming (now called “Climate Change”) is responsible for the record breaking cold and snow all over the planet
*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!* times elebenty infinity
*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEZES back in amazingly charming ways*
Thereby warming up the currently cooling planet with a hug by approximately .000000001 degrees.
ZOMG!!!!
*faints*
*holds shot of Cabo Wabo under Leila’s nose*
*sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffffffffffffff*
AH! Thank you WN. WN!!!!!!
*faints again*
*wakes to fit a SQUEEZE before fainting again*
*looks at prostrate Leila*
*smiles*
*goes back to work after squeezing her unconscious form one last delightful time*
Laterz everybody!!
WHOA, Nellie! Come back here!
*ska-WEEZIES!*
Wha! OH!!! *SQUEEEEEEEEZE!!(aroonie)*
It’s good to hear from you occasionally, WN! *squeeze!*
He is such a tease!
*squeezesWNandneverletsgo*
It’s a cold day in hell, all right!
LGB – ’tis a pleasure to warm you up with a dramatic SQUEEEEEEEEEEEZE – thereby providing approximately .000000001 more degrees of warmth to the planet in my evily human way
You warmed my heart waaaaaaay more than that!
awwwwwwwwwwwwww… *hugs LGB significantly longer – and harder*
♪ Oh I … I just died in your arms tonight ♫
♪ Musta been somethin’ you said ♫
*plugs ears*
*runs from thread screaming*
LALALALALALALALALALALALALA!!!
Hey, I’ve had Oingo Boingo’s “Only a Lad” earwormed in my head for over a month now – that sucker’s persistent!
I’ll take some Oingo Boingo!
♪ Only a lad – you really can’t blame him – only a lad – society made him – ♪
He’s our responsibility.
WB WN.
Only way I’ve been able to (temporarily) remove “Only a Lad” has been with the equally potent “Grey Matter”, also by Oingo Boingo.
Whew. Scary.
They (whoever “they” are) say that if you actually finish the song in your head — sing the final note and words — you’ll get rid of it.
I thought I had it bad — I’ve had Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” stuck in my head for two weeks.
ACK!!
I’ve got you all beat, I’ve had “For Your Eyes Only” stuck in my head ever since I watched the movie with Rooster. Two months ago, I think. Not the whole song, just the refrain.
~Your welcome~
*adds an apostrophe and an “e” to “your” before anyone says anything*
*is amazed it went unnoticed/commented on this long*
You should have exercised some ♪ self control ♪, at least until ♪ sanity prevailed ♪
I gotcher number and alias, AV.
Aren’t you ♫ the lucky one ♫ ? Now, ♫ how am I supposed to carry on ♫ ?
Obvi kelvin, psh cmon chemistry nubz
~I fall in lovez wich you cuz yew haz the smartz that weren’t fertilized.~
*snork*
You know he has no clue what those tildes mean, right?
That’s what makes it so beautiful in my mind.
Agreed–makes it all the better.
*leilasqueeze*
HeHeeee!!!!!!
*DWsqueeze*
I think it would be inhumanely cold there, and they have just measured a new lowest temp on earth ever there..
See, Al Gore was right
~Indeed.~
It could be true if that temperature is in Kelvin, and the actual temperature was like 150 below zero celcius.
*headdesk*
Does no one READ the comments anymore!?
Please document how one could read comments.
Well, it does require the ability to read, and comprehend what was read. So maybe I am asking too much of the trolls.
Mission aborted!
*FridayBirdieSqueezies*
*squeeze!*
I really should be cleaning right now… I hate cleaning!
Then why do you do it? HeeHee My allergies cannot handle cleaning.
Someone has to do it, and I get paid to clean my folks place. I just wish they’d clean up the cat yak BEFORE I get here! They don’t pay me enough to deal with that!
Replace current cat with a self-cleaning one. As much as I love cats I don’t miss their little ‘presents’.
They have two, and they would certainly notice the change. I love these guys, but seriously, the one with hair-ball issues needs to GET OVER IT!!!!
Telling a cat to GET OVER IT is like telling a troll to read comments before posting.
*sighs*
I know, I know.
People say “it’s too cold to snow”, but I’ve never heard anyone say it’s too hot to snow. Maybe it’s correct.
Whoa! That’s like a mind bending reflection.
Nothing phases the Moomin. His musings lead one to a critical point about water.
Triple points for such a sublim
atione comment AA.This is what happens when you store temperatures in a signed, 7-bit integer.
I guess you beat me to that one.
YES! I was wondering how far down I’d have to scroll to find someone who knew anything about computers, hehe. In a signed 7-bit number, the 7th bit is worth -64, so you can express any integer between -64 and 63 (not very useful for Fahrenheit but I assume this thermometer measures in Celsius). Somewhere along the line, the 7th bit was accidentally interpreted as 64 instead of -64, so the display would show a temperature 128 degrees too high. Way to go, @Zarggg! Why the cheap bastards didn’t spring for the whole byte in the first place is beyond me. I’d actually be much less surprised if it said 247 degrees.
Maybe it does have an 8-bit register, but some douche is holding a lighter to the sensor.
It says -9 degrees, you just have to speak 7-digit binary.
7 bits -> 2^7 = 128 -> -9,-8,…,-1,0,1,2,3 becomes 119,120,…,127,0,1,2,3.
I’m so confused i might puke, or faint, or both….i need to sit down for a second….
Put your head between your knees, Jaysen.
I said YOUR knees!
*quicksqueezesLGB*
*buts heads between legs*
i think i am starting to feel bet*gag* nope nope not yet….
*ponders* is this what they mean when they say kiss your as.s goodbye?
Yes. Hopefully it’s not the one in the Proper Hygiene fail… *garp*
YES! You are correct sir. I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed this. Bad programming, obviously.
Dude, you’re totally messing with my high.
Maybe the picture should be called ‘Programming Fail’, to confuse anyone who doesn’t know anything about the binary system.
would (maybe) be funny…
btw, why would anyone use that way to save a signed number?
i mean, why not 8 bits? it just makes no sense
See I told y’all.
It might be displayed in Kelvin degrees as a Joke
Well, that could be Kelvin…
AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
My sentiments exactly.
I fail to see what a clothing line has to do with this fail
ARRRRRRRRR!!!!!
I really don’t think you can blame the pirates for this one.
Seems we don’t have to worry about the ice melting due to global warning: ice and snow are good at adapting to warmth aparantly.
I really do believe my CLICKIE explains Arthur’s absence.
There are pigs driving a Honda Accord on the Autobahn!!
It’s Europe!
They let pigs do as they please.
Alright, who was playing with the Ice-Nine again?
(mad props to anyone who gets the reference)
Seriously?? You think people don’t read Vonnegut?
*read Vonnegut*
It is in his book Cat’s Cradle.
Personally I like his short stories in Welcome to the Monkey House. Also Breakfast of Champions was good too.
I like Wheaties too!
:pleh: Wheaties. I’m a Frosted Mini-Wheats girl, myself.
Actually if I remember correctly the book refers to it as martini.
Hee! You beat me to it.
It’s not Kelvins nor °C or °F.
It’s just that the capter and the display didn’t use the same number encoding. 128 (2^7) – 9 = 119. It’s just a fail of conception !
I believe you’re right! Mystery solved…
His efforts might have been more impressive if it was an actual mystery to begin with.
*snork*
That’s probably in Kelvin, not Celsius. Or maybe it’s based on some arcane scale like zero being the freezing point of liquid neon or something.
~Wow! I didn’t know that.~
poep met kerrie =D
But, its a cold heat….
heh ... ^ dryhumidityhumorOk, folks, I think we have established a number of things having to do with Kelvin. The f!rst thing being; I DON’T CARE!!!! The second being; it’s likely already been said ten times so far and we don’t need to hear/read it again!!!!
People learn best through repetition.
Sure, but they’re not all saying the exact same thing! And it would appear that a fair number of them are just plain wrong!
But Calvin and Hobbs was such a great cartoon.
No one said it wasn’t!
Just keep taking deep breaths, and keep thinking in time this will pass.
If that does not work get to a nice comfy place. Take fast shallow breaths and then hold your breath. When you wake up you will be feeling much better.
When’s the Friday Rewind due anyway?
Has anyone mentioned this fail has something to do with Kelvin?
*
*
It should only be a mild chemical burn.
Sorry, I thought it was “Kevin”.
*puts UP into DVD player*
*chooses scene*
Yep, just as I thought. Kevin
*loved that movie*
*explodes in terror*
Glad to see you’ve been putting your birthday present to good use!
It’s a little cold to be wearing the Speedo…maybe why he exploded.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
You had so much to live for!!!!!!!!
*pops out of hiding place*
SURPRISE! It was a clone all along! I knew I’d be obliterated if I even mentioned the K word, so I let one of my body doubles do the dirty work. How’d you like the new ones? They explode by themselves. Neat, huh?
I am very relieved. You really should identify your body doubles so we don’t have to worry so much.
Tsk. Right after his birthday too.
He was a good kid…We’ll miss him.
You people are so gullible. Open it in Photoshop and flip through the channels, the number 1 was obviously cloned.
Naw. That was BFF. Up there ^^^^.
Yeah, get with the program, already!
That’s odd, because I can see the pixels in the 9.
This isn’t fail, this is win of science and nature…. I’ve seen this (not this, but similar)
I have a picture of snow on a sign that reads 98degress (F) and I checked, it was in fact that warm (with snow on the ground)
Ok, I fail at trolling, but science is awesome
But I do have that picture I mentioned….this happens every year in W. Yellowstone (where my family lives)…
Perhaps the temperature is displayed in Kelvin…
Could be Kelvin… know what, never mind. It’s a fail
if they was kelvin.. 119k = -245F :S (-154c)
First suspected Kelvin but then did the math…
FPs:
Check out all the Kelvin comments on here. It’s positively hilarious…
It’s a two’s complement fail. The temperature must have been encoded in 8 bits.
* 7 bits
no it really was that hot, its just fake snow.
Could also be Rankine, you know. That’s about 341F so still a fail
That’s not the temperature, that’s the interest (in %) that they’re currently charging you on your credit cards.
It’s not a temperature, it’s an angle.
It could be just Celsius but the “dot” is missing and the “minus” couldn’t be displayed due to the lack of space. So that it is -11.9 Celsius (the author says -10 C).
The display could have been designed not to go under -9.9 C. So it’s still an engineering fail…
lol
This is just too much…
Okay folks, here’s the answer. Assume the real temperature outside is -9F. Assume they used signed 8-bits to describe the range of -127 to 128 decimal degrees. -9 decimal is binary 1111 0111. If the top (signed) bit got switched to a 0, then the binary number becomes 0111 0111 or 0×77, which is = 119 decimal. (I love embedded software bugs!)
http://www.lisaksimone.com/phoneonfire
… Sorry typo, the signed char range is -128 to 127.
Wow, it’s 119 °C and this white thing ain’t snow. It’s the foam of boiling water, because the water starts to boil at 100 °C.
That is -10 in unsigned 7 bit integer format.
Hi wz, good thoughts, but if you are using a 7-bit signed system, you can’t express the value 119 in binary. The 7th bit becomes the signed bit, leaving you only 6 bits for the actual numbers – so you can only express -64 to 63. Not 119.
You can also look at it in reverse. Start with -10 and see what decimal (temperature) value you get. To compute -10 in 7 bit format, start with +10 and take the twos-complement. 10 dec = 000 1010. To get -10, invert and add 1: 111 0101 + 1 = 111 0110.
Now, if this truly were a 7-bit signed system, the top bit represents the negative sign, leaving 11 0110 as the actual value. 11 0110 = 0×36 = 54. Therefore, -10 in a signed 7-bit system is actually 54 decimal, not 119.
wz is mistaken about -10; it’s actually -9, but it’s true that you only need seven bits if it’s unsigned. The range of unsigned 7-bit integers is 0 to 127. 1110111b = 119
If you interpret it as a signed 7-bit int, 1110111b is -9.
WIN!!!
11,9 F = -11 C, right?
I think it’s 11.9
Ah yes.Summer time in Canada.
Maybe it’s in Kelvin.
Our local bank’s time-temperature-weather phone line used to do that. This is Central Florida we’re talking here, so no snow, but nonetheless we’d get “Time now: 4:22 p.m. Temperature: One hundred forty-six degrees. Weather: Partly cloudy today, with a chance of rain in the afternoon and cooler tonight.” MMMmmmMmmmmmkay.
Y does U Amerikans still use this shtupid F system?
I know, right? And they say Canadians are weird.
Up high, my friend.
If that’s Kelvin it’s -245.2 ºF outside. Maybe the picture was taken in Antarctica.
Maybe it means 119 Kelvin.
Its actually 11.9° Fahrenheit.. theres simply a comma missing…
That thing is busted!
It says 11.9 degrees…
They need to have that temperature display fixed…
it is in kelvin
It’s actually -10?
What country do you live in that use a unitless temperature scale?
This is CLEARLY not a fail. You know, there are other ways of the temperature outside besides Celsius and Fahrenheit!
Explanation of this FAIL:
This was a software bug as follows:
the Variable was declared as a signed 8 bit integer
which has a MAX value of 128, overflowed when going negative
Actual Temp. : Stored Temperature in the variable
3 : 3 (note all positive temperatures are correct)
2 : 2
1 : 1
0 : 0 (the variable Overflow happened)
-1: 128 (now all Negative temperatures are wrong)
-2: 127
-3: 126
-4: 125
-5: 124
-6: 123
-7: 122
-8: 121
-9: 120
-10:119 so, 119 was displayed when the temp was -10 deg. F
1 deg F
Not quite. If the variable is signed, it ranges from a min of -128 to a max of 127. When it rolls under from 0 to -1, it becomes -128, not +128. Instead of doing this in decimal, do it in binary and you’ll see the upper (signed bit) issue. In order for the display to read 119, the signed bit isn’t used (or is ignored).
How can this happen? Several theories abound. The most logical is that the display doesn’t have enough room to display the negative sign after roll under, so “-119″ appears as “119.”
@Lisa: One possible exlanation: the sensor uses normal two’s complement presentation for the temp output and the software ignores the MSB. Since 119 is 1110111 in binary, we can assume actual byte read is 11110111. Now that’s a negative number in two’s complement.
To get to the corresponding positive value, you subtract one and flip the bits, which gives 00001001 or 9. So it should read -9 degrees, in celsius.
they forgot the negative sign
Check the thermal sensors, anyone?
Dilan – good point I don’t think anyone offered yet. If we could watch the erroneous values changes as the temperature changes a couple degrees, that would help us figure out if the reported temperature has a pattern or is more garbage from a bad sensor. Lisa
Maybe it was kelvin….?:)