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alt textComic strip of a ghost and a person with the American flag pasted on the head. The ghost repeats "Boo!" in the first three panels without getting any reaction, but when it in the fourth panel says "kg, cm, km, °C" the American gets scared and screams "AHHHH!!!".

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn't matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn't make a big difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what happens at 0 F?

I mean 0 C is when the water change its state, but then what happens at 0 F?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The lower point of Fahrenheight is near the freezing point of brine (salt water) which freezes at -6 F (-21 C).

It was designed around what the coldest day at the time of its invention could get and the 100F was marked around how hot the hottest day of the year at the timr would get. Hence its choice to scale 0-100 to local weather vs celcius' choice to use kelvin and offset it to standardize it to pure water.

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