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[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think one is supposed to be radians, not sure why they both have the ° though, cause radians aren’t a degree. Should be just R the way Kelvin is just K.

[–] Bob@feddit.org 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It is clearly the Rankine scale, which is an absolute temperature scale just like Kelvin. Which means that 0 K and 0 °R is exactly the same.