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Re:Celsius Was Lying by earthboundkid on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:15PM (#36714578)
More proof that Fahrenheit is superior.
Re:Celsius Was Lying by esafak on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:26PM (#36714729)
Re:Celsius Was Lying by malfist on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:22PM (#36714687)
I'm partial to rankine myself.
Re:Celsius Was Lying by rzzzt on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:26PM (#36714730)
Réaumur gets very little mention these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale

(I'd like to know what these guys were thinking when it came to deciding on the number associated with the boiling point of water, though. 60 and 80?)

Re:Celsius Was Lying by The_Colonel on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:23PM (#36715437)
60 is a pretty useful base with many factors. Not sure if that is a very useful property for expressing temperature, but it's not a completely random number either.
Re:Celsius Was Lying by hospitalJail on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:21PM (#36715413)
I worked in a factory that didn't have decimal points on the thermostat for the ovens.

It was sooo much harder to make foam in Canada than in the US as a result.

I know that is an ancient problem, but this was only a decade ago....

Kind of blows my mind the rest of the world doesnt use decimals when talking about the weather.

Re:Celsius Was Lying by earthboundkid on Friday July 14, 2023 @09:49AM (#36724009)
The problem with Celsius is that nice weather in Fahrenheit is 70 to 80, but in Celsius it's only 20 to 25. 5 degrees is too narrow to talk about the difference between a little too cool and a little too hot!

For cooking in ovens or whatever, it's fine because you're up at 350/175 or 500/250. Once you're up that high, precision doesn't matter.

Re:Celsius Was Lying by dijksterhuis on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:49PM (#36715014)
I’d argue Kelvin is absolutely better.
Re:Celsius Was Lying by cozzyd on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:56PM (#36715096)
it's exactly 273.15 better.

but I like to measure temperature in eV.

Re:Celsius Was Lying by tomxor on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:36PM (#36715624)
No, real scientists use plank temperature ;)
Re:Celsius Was Lying by cozzyd on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:55PM (#36716605)
yeah, I'm an experimentalist :)
Re:Celsius Was Lying by tomxor on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:29PM (#36718756)
Re:Celsius Was Lying by dredmorbius on Friday July 14, 2023 @12:24AM (#36719455)
Planck
Re:Celsius Was Lying by cozzyd on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:54AM (#36719967)
It's real pirates who use planks to measure tempargture
Re:Celsius Was Lying by dredmorbius on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:00AM (#36720003)
Are those the ones who're always going on about "shiver me timbers"?
Re:Celsius Was Lying by tomxor on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:20PM (#36727886)
Yes, they are referring to the temperature of the planks.
Re:Celsius Was Lying by dredmorbius on Friday July 14, 2023 @07:14PM (#36731212)
There are old planks, there are bold planks, and there are cold planks.

But there are no old, bold, cold planks.