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human
ELI5: If you have 2 of the same item, one heated to 100deg and one cooled to -100deg. Will their temperatures depreciate at the same rate or is one faster than the other?
gpt
You are missing one component that makes it impossible to know, actually a couple.  But mainly, how warm is the room they are in.  If the room is at 70 degrees, the 100 degree item will cool slower than the -100 degree item heats up.  Because the 70 degree air won't be able to dissipate the heat as fast as lets say 30 degree air, or -20 degree air.

There is still other factors too.  For example, not all materials transfer heat and cooling at the same rate.  So depending on what material the item was made out of, it might shed heat a lot faster than heat up.