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Honest to God, mate, you're just comfortable using your system. That's fine, to be honest, but all this is invented justification. The intuitiveness of these un
by scarejunba 8y ago
Honest to God, mate, you're just comfortable using your system. That's fine, to be honest, but all this is invented justification. The intuitiveness of these units is overrated.
- ubernostrum 8y agoI will stand up for Fahrenheit as originally conceived, for the convenience it was intended to provide: easy calibration and marking of thermometers. As originally designed, the reference points -- a self-stabilizing brine mixture, and human body heat -- make it easy to set up a situation where the difference between any two adjacent already-marked points is a power of two, after which filling in the rest is just a matter of marking halfway points between previously-marked points. Unfortunately, that got ruined by a later reaction to Celsius; the Royal Society redefined in terms of freezing/boiling of water, fixed those at exactly 32F and 212F, and as a result the original second reference point was no longer exactly 96 (it became 98-ish).