BizEE Software, a South Wales, U.K., company that develops software to help building managers assess their energy-fuel needs, publishes a measure called degree days for places around the world that highlights this variation in temperature.

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An ideal one would keep the same rate regardless of variation in power supply, temperature, air pressure, magnetic fields, or any other disturbing influences.

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