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Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin (i.imgur.com)
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[-] s_s@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t think how hot humans feel works at all, it’s just arbitrary

Fahrenheit was originally calculated to be 64 even divisions between water freezing temp and human body temp, then 32 more units below freezing.

Then ambient human body temp was recalculated from 96F to 98.6F.

So it's not exactly arbitrary. It's based on powers of 2, based upon an inaccurate measurement.

[-] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, the temperature 0 was assigned because it was the lowest temperature that winter in Fahrenheit's town, and the "powers of two" was only chosen because it was simple to mark degree lines on his instrument. Feels quite arbitrary to me...

[-] 1847953620@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

And yet, as a person, Fahrenheit seems far more intuitive and Celsius arbitrary.

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