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by Y_Y 1082 days ago
Five kelvins. Just like five metres, no capital letters or funny symbols.

The reason you can do it for Celsius or Fahrenheit is that those are scales but not units. The energy in two bodies (with constant heat capacity) at 100° is not the same as in a single body at 200°, but if you use kelvins then it works out.