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Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by cosmic_cheese on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:10PM (#43449750)
As an American I’m biased, but Fahrenheit matching the 1-100 scale used in so many other things just feels nice. Maps cleanly to 0-1.0 in a float/decimal type in programming which is neat too. Feels less arbitrary even if it actually isn’t.

I prefer metric otherwise but for temperature Fahrenheit just “clicks” in ways that Celsius doesn’t.

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Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by taberiand on Saturday March 22, 2025 @08:57PM (#43450035)
Fahrenheit doesn't match the 1-100 scale, though - Celsius does. 0 water freezes, 100 water boils.
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Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by hollerith on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:23PM (#43450212)
Herr Fahrenheit measured the temperature many times over a period of one year in some town in Germany. He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.
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Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by taberiand on Sunday March 23, 2025 @01:05AM (#43451015)
Ok but Celsius works wherever you are (adjusting for pressure)
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Re:The polar vortex is hitting the brakes by 0rzech on Monday March 24, 2025 @04:35PM (#43465148)
> some town in Germany

The Polish city of Gdańsk, of the then Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was also born there at the time. [1]

> He defined 0 degrees as the coldest measurement, 100 the hottest measurement.

Nope. It was neither about the temperatures in Gdańsk, nor about the temperature of his wife, btw. ;) [2]

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
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