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I know it is not my country, and that converting is not that difficult, but personally Fahrenheit degrees are meaningless for me.
by henearkr 4y ago
I know it is not my country, and that converting is not that difficult, but personally Fahrenheit degrees are meaningless for me.
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- Comevius 4y agoFahrenheit is intuitive. 0°F is the lowest air temperature measured in a town called Danzig in winter 1708-09, and water boils at 212°F. 4°F is ammonium chloride brine, and water freezes at 32°F. These are ballpark figures, you need Celsius or Kelvin to precisely define Fahrenheit.
- EForEndeavour 4y agoThe beauty of the HN community is that I genuinely can't tell if you're being sarcastic.
- vixen99 4y agoNot meaningless if you merely search for something like 'graphical Fahrenheit and Celsius', print out one of the representations of the two scales that appeals and keep it where you can see it for a day or so. Choosing at random I'd say that https://learn.weatherstem.com/modules/learn/lessons/62/img/diagram-temp-comparison.jpg https://learn.weatherstem.com/modules/learn/lessons/62/img/d... is quite neat.
- autoexec 4y agoJust to give you an idea: It's basically 0-100 0 is really cold. bellow freezing. Negative temps are pretty rare. freezing is 32 which you just have to memorize. 70 is room temperature, and 68-75 is comfortable for most 100 is really hot, temperatures above this are also fairly uncommon for most folks.
- shard 4y agoFor a quick-and-dirty conversion, I do F=2C+30, C=(F-30)/2.