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As an American I’m biased, but Fahrenheit matching the 1-100 scale used in so many other things just feels nice. Maps cleanly to 0-1.0 in a float/decimal type i
by cosmic_cheese 2y ago
As an American I’m biased, but Fahrenheit matching the 1-100 scale used in so many other things just feels nice. Maps cleanly to 0-1.0 in a float/decimal type in programming which is neat too. Feels less arbitrary even if it actually isn’t.
I prefer metric otherwise but for temperature Fahrenheit just “clicks” in ways that Celsius doesn’t.
- taberiand 2y agoFahrenheit doesn't match the 1-100 scale, though - Celsius does. 0 water freezes, 100 water boils.
- artursapek 2y ago[flagged]
- hollerith 2y agoHerr Fahrenheit measured the temperature many times over a period of one year in some town in Germany. He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.
- taberiand 2y agoOk but Celsius works wherever you are (adjusting for pressure)
- 0rzech 2y ago> some town in Germany The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1] > He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement. Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit