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by eru 854 days ago
You should join the folks at the tau-not-pi club.

And going off on a tangent: in thermodynamics, we should measure coldness (coldness ~ 1 / temperature). It makes all the math come out nicer.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldness

Coldness handles 'negative temperatures' much better. As Wikipedia puts it:

> Though completely equivalent in conceptual content to temperature, β [= coldness] is generally considered a more fundamental quantity than temperature owing to the phenomenon of negative temperature, in which β is continuous as it crosses zero whereas T has a singularity.[7]