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What the fuck is a Fahrenheit? (feddit.org)

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[+] [email protected] -58 points 1 week ago (104 children)

Fahrenheit is better.

0 is real cold, 100 is real hot. How much sense does that make? Lots.

What the fuck is Celsius? Maybe if you are doing chemistry it is better. 0 is kind of cold but not really, 40 is real hot, 80 is unsued in practice, 100 is when water boils. Great, that'll come in real handy the next time I need to find out whether it is boiling-water temperature or not outside. How much sense does that make? 0. Which is the right number to use for roughly the bottom of the scale.

For everything else, the US's medieval "how many hogsheads in a farthing" units are far inferior, I will 100% agree. Fahrenheit is better though. If you disagree then why not just use Kelvin, that's even more chemically accurate and even less related to human relevant temperatures which is the goal I guess.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It just boils down down to which you've grown up with. You're so used to using F it just seems obvious, but at least to me, the numbers seem a bit random and arbitrary.

But I know that 0C is literally freezing out and that the roads and pavements could be icy. And I also know that 30C is a very hot day (to me) just through experience and not knowing any other scale and being exposed to C all the time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

0°F is literally freezing outside too

32°C is 90°F

90°F is a very hot day. Extremely hot is 100°F (38°C).

50°F is where you'd slowly die being naked.

75°F is room temperature

25°F water is definitely frozen

Hot tubs are 100°F

Saunas are 200°F

-20°C to 40°C

0°F to 100°F

10°C is about 50°F

20°C is about 75°F

-20,(-10), 0, 10, 20, (30), 40

0, (14), 25, 50, 75, (86), 100

They are both easy once you know the scale

-40° is where they both line up.

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