• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    How? it is just numbers, there is no human relation. i grew up learning both measures. i know that 20C is comfortable the same at 68F is comfortable. If anything C makes more sense, at 0 things are going to want to freeze on my body. For F that is 32…an arbitrary value

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      6 months ago

      IIRC the original reference temperatures for Farenheit were ice brine (0°) and human body temperature (100°).

      Nowadays it’s formally defined in relation to Kelvin.

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        6 months ago

        The ice brine was actual a unique solution the guy establish to freeze at zero, not saltwater like I was originally taught, so it was completely arbitrary 0. And the body temp for normal people is 97.5 to 98. It feela like the dude wanted a 0-100 scale and tweaked the whole thing to suit his desire.