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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?)

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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.
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