Thursday, July 12, 2018
Speaking of Frost again...
Following loosely on this.
The Spokane Weather Bureau hasn't posted any nice gentle poems lately, but today they're having nerdish pun-fun with Roman numbers. It's clever and cute. It also shows an unsung advantage of Arabic numbers. The Y-axis is in Arabic, and the literal columns for temperatures are Roman. The Arabic representation grows wider with increasing value. You need more digits for 100 than 90. The Roman representation is completely random. The lowest temperature needs 7 digits and the highest needs 2 digits.
Later: They missed the best pun. It's a graph of temple-ature.
¶ 11:46 AM 
