[zeugma]

Just checked his Wikipedia page and then looked at some of the foreign-language versions--they keep Fahrenheit 451 as the title of the book but some of them helpfully explain that that is the equivalent of 233 degrees Celsius (some are more precise: 232.78 degrees).

LOL. That's something I'd never thought of before.  Wonder if they change it in the story.

[Verginius Rufus]

The reason for the title, of course, is that is the temperature at which paper burns. I wonder if that is precisely 451.0 degrees. The Celsius equivalent was calculated from exactly 451 degrees—but is that exactly the temperature at which paper burns in the Celsius scale? They could be off by a couple tenths of a degree.