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This never made sense to me. What "feels" special about 32, or 98, or 212? If anything this argument is way more applicable to Celsius (0 noteworthy, 100 notewo
by Mumps 2y ago
This never made sense to me. What "feels" special about 32, or 98, or 212? If anything this argument is way more applicable to Celsius (0 noteworthy, 100 noteworthy).
I once read that it had to do with making a calibrated scale (divisions of 2) - and that felt like it held water - to me.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI don't know the history, but I have to imagine that it was motivated by this sort of reasoning: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4j8nq2/fahrenheit_celsius_and_kelvin/ https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4j8nq2/fahrenheit_ce... I don't defend any other imperial units. Bring on the kilograms, meters, and liters. But when I saw that thermostats in Europe change by increments of 0.5 my gut reaction was "this is silly".
- ta1243 2y agoThe sauna I was in last night was over 90C so I'm not sure "dead" would apply. I've seen thermostats set to F move by 2F each increment which felt "a bit silly" to me