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by johan_felisaz 425 days ago
Nitpick of the nitpick... Temperature is actually an intensive quantity, i.e. combining two subsystems with the same temperature yields a bigger system with the same temperature, not twice bigger.
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This is why the "thermodynamic beta" is really useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta

D'oh! Thanks for the correction