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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

But there's numbers below 0 and beyond 100. I don't know why some are so focused on just those two points

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I feel like 0-100F encompasses most living temperatures in the USA. It's also a cleaner scale (in terms of human-comfortable temperatures) than 32 to 37.779 in that regard. 0F is the temperature where humans need to make sure they aren't wet and make sure their drinking water isn't left outside. 100F is the temperature where we need to be worrying about heat stroke and accelerated dehydration.

    So, making this human-intuitive scale of temperatures a 0-100 range makes it easier to understand for a layperson.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    32 to 37.779? You just converted 0C to F (backwards) and 100F to Celsius...

    0F is way lower than the temperature water freezes at (32F). Water freezes at 0C.

    Comfortable temperatures are between 22C and 27C, let's say, which converts roughly to 72F to 80F. None of these are "more intuitive" than the other.

    If I see ice, I know it's below 0C. If water boils in my pot, I know it reached a temperature close to 100C. Fahrenheit on the other hand is based on completely arbitrary points.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Lmao I'm so dumb, I was very tired and wrote this in a state of "brain please wake up" limbo.

    Point still stands, just 0 to 100 and -17.777 to -37.778

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Your brain must still be a little tired, because why on earth would you think we would use Fahrenheit's 0 and 100 as a basis for anything in Celsius?

    I could say the same thing backwards: 0 to 100 C is 32 to 212 F.

    The only reason there aren't weird decimals there, is because Fahrenheit was later adjusted to have whole numbers at those same (water based) temperatures.

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