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It would make a lot more sense if we used a system where 0 was the coldest it normally got, and 100 was the highest it normally got. Way more integer data poin
by smackfu 12y ago
It would make a lot more sense if we used a system where 0 was the coldest it normally got, and 100 was the highest it normally got. Way more integer data points, and a lot less use of negative numbers.
- astrodust 12y agoKelvin starts at 0°. There's a maximum temperature but it's really stupidly hot, where the particles are accelerated to nearly light speed because of thermal energy. The temperature of the sun would be 0.00000000000000002° in your crazy system.
- smackfu 12y agoI was joking, Fahrenheit is basically setting zero to the lowest temperature most people run into outside, and 100 to the highest temperature run into outside, in Europe.
- astrodust 12y agoSo Spain's not part of Europe? They push up over 100°F there on a fairly regular basis. 0 through 100 is really just a part-time thing at best. In °C the same thing plays out as somewhere between -40°C and 40°C where at the bottom of the scale it's really cold and at the top it's really hot. Plus it follows the simple rule of "negative numbers mean ice outside" which is important from so many perspectives. That makes a lot more intuitive sense than "numbers under 32".
- rakoo 12y ago> Kelvin starts at 0°. No, Kelvin starts at 0K [0] :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin