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If your body temp is over 100 F, you have a fever. If the outside is 100 F, it's too damn hot. The bottom end is much harder to justify but I believe the idea

If your body temp is over 100 F, you have a fever. If the outside is 100 F, it's too damn hot. The bottom end is much harder to justify but I believe the idea was that you wouldn't have to regularly deal with negative numbers. But both F and C are completely arbitrary. That's the least messed up part of the non-SI unit system.

groestl 4y ago
Freezing and boiling water really does not seem that arbitrary to me.
- Steltek 4y ago
  What's the pressure for your nonarbitrary boiling point? In SI units please.
  - groestl 4y ago
    It know it's not SI level scientific, but still, it's not as arbitrary as the "temperature of a normal human body".