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I'm partial to rankine myself.

• rzzzt 3y ago
  Réaumur gets very little mention these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale (I'd like to know what these guys were thinking when it came to deciding on the number associated with the boiling point of water, though. 60 and 80?)
  • The_Colonel 3y ago
    60 is a pretty useful base with many factors. Not sure if that is a very useful property for expressing temperature, but it's not a completely random number either.
• hospitalJail 3y ago
  I worked in a factory that didn't have decimal points on the thermostat for the ovens. It was sooo much harder to make foam in Canada than in the US as a result. I know that is an ancient problem, but this was only a decade ago.... Kind of blows my mind the rest of the world doesnt use decimals when talking about the weather.
  • earthboundkid 3y ago
    The problem with Celsius is that nice weather in Fahrenheit is 70 to 80, but in Celsius it's only 20 to 25. 5 degrees is too narrow to talk about the difference between a little too cool and a little too hot! For cooking in ovens or whatever, it's fine because you're up at 350/175 or 500/250. Once you're up that high, precision doesn't matter.