Talk:1 E2 K

This article was nominated for deletion on September 19, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Untitled 2005 topic[edit]

I believe the mean surface temperature of the earth is actually 14°C = 57°F. Am I not correct here? EventHorizon talk 00:30, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The article Earth gives a mean surface temperature of 287 K and the article Kelvin states °C = K - 273.15 and °F = K × 1.8 − 459.67, so I've changed the values here accordingly, hoping this is not original research. 84.160.214.211 18:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I came here to find out what "1 E2 K" means. I still don't know. Did I miss something? :) Philip Howard 20:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's scientific notation. 1E2 K means 1*10² K = 100 Kelvin, indicating that you'll find temperatures from 100K and above here (up till 1000K, which will be on 1 E3 K :) --Amalthea 20:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This page claims that the mean temp of earth is 287 K, yet the highest is 331 k, the lowest 184 K, and (331+184)/2= 257 K! Is this a mistake?

Assume there are ten places with 184K and one with 331K. You can't just take the arithmetic mean of the two temperatures to get the mean temperature of all places, you need to weigh them with the number of places they occur. --Amalthea 20:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What purpose does this article serve? I'm tagging it for deletion.[edit]

At least 90 percent of the visitors to Wikipedia probably have no notion of what 1 E2 K means, so why the nonsense of such a title? In fact, what useful purpose does the absolute trivia in this article serve? - mbeychok 00:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to nominate this for deletion then go through the normal deletion process, it does not fit any of the speedy deletion categories. I can assure you though that it would survive any deletion attempt. Arkyan 01:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]