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Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used
by daotoad 5y ago
Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile.
If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.
- airstrike 5y agoUuuhhh, no? More like freezing is 0C and there are 1,000 meters in a kilometer
- mannerheim 5y agoWhat's so special about the boiling point of water?
- loloquwowndueo 5y agodefining a scale using the two transition points of a common naturally-occurring substance which is crucial to life and chemical processes makes a lot of sense. Using a random human’s body temperature and a strange random mixture of chemicals as scale points does not make any sense. Might as well pick a random hot day and a random cold day and use that.
- mannerheim 5y agoRegardless, I don't see how in practice it matters that water boils at a hundred degrees. E.g., never when boiling water have I set a temperature.
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoYou must not care about the quality of your coffee then.
- mannerheim 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean. I'm by no means an aficionado, but I've had coffee via automatic drip brew, Keurig, French press, even boiled some water in a small pot and had it like tea a few times. But I've never had to deal with the temperature personally, and that seems rather niche anyway.
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoThanks for proving my point.