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It's even in the documentation to Units:

> But Fahrenheit to Celsius is linear, you insist. Not so. A transformation T is linear if T(x+y)=T(x)+T(y) and this fails for T(x)=ax+b . This transformation is affine, but not linear.

https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/html_node/Overview...



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