Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
by PostOnce on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:35AM
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Fahrenheit (the man) was himself a physicist... he invented the mercury thermometer. That's pretty scientific.
So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin).
Actually, nobody complains that we use both Celsius and Kelvin, so what problem is there with a third scale for people, if the former two are for industry and science respectively?
Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
by xxs on Monday September 05, 2022 @07:33AM
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>So calling it "Frankenstein and Science" is a little silly, especially when we have an absolute scientific scale (Kelvin).
That was unnecessary, an obvious joke about both, and how people feel about them, etc. C and K scale the same way, so C is just an offset K (or vise versa). Both C and F are arbitrary, of course - zero (as developer) being the phase change of the water does make more sense to me; again arbitrary.
For me how it works - 0 is freezing point, 36 is body temperature (you learn that around 4-5y of age), and it's imprinted heavily. Half your body temp is about to begin feeling cold (in general). Picked body temp as it is 100F (originally 100F was meant to be the body temperature)