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Firmly entrenched in American society, the seemingly capricious nature of the Fahrenheit temperature scale could lead one to think that its Dutch inventor, Daniel Fahrenheit, pulled the number for the freezing point (32°F) of water out of his hat. But, in fact, its designation, as well as that of 0°F were precisely (for the early 18th century) calculated based upon deliberate choices about how to establish fixed points of temperature.
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Beautiful day outside a nice 293 Kelvin
Hello,
I invented a new tempature scale that I believe is far superior for weather and medical applications. How do I tell the world?
thank you i now understand it much appreciated
Either works well. It's whatever you're used to. I think Fahrenheit is better. It's more detailed. The numbers are a little odd compared to Celsius for sure.
How about a video on why there are 360 degrees in a circle?
What about kelvin?
Degrees Celsius is not an SI unit. Zero degrees Kelvin is -273.15 Degrees Celsius. To do calculations in Engineering, Physics and other branches of science, you have to convert from Degrees Celsius to Degrees Kelvin. This is easily done by simply adding 273.15 to Degrees Celsius to obtain Degrees Kelvin, which then can be used in calculations. 273.15 Degrees Kelvin is 0 Degrees Celsius and 373.15 Degrees Kelvin is 100 Degrees Celsius.
Celsius is just a lesser version of it's superior brother Fahrenheit who's far more accurate.
I mean seriously, 100 degrees for freezing and 0 for boiling? lulz
1. Celcius is not a part of the metric system.
2. Farenheit is just as base 10 as Celcius is.
3. Farenheit's 0-100 more closely represents the daily temperature on Earth. Whereas it's routinely below 0C and never 100C.
Metric vs English?
Americans won because no one wanted a metric clock (10 hour days), or metric calendar (10 day weeks, 10 week months, and 10 month years)! 🤣
It would help if next time you slow down when you speak.
Chinese airlines still use centigrade
I prefer the metric system except for every day temperatures.
The C scale is too compressed.
Fahrenheit is better:
-fewer negatives
-1 4/5x precision
-more practical in daily use
2:00 and that's why Fahrenheit and imperial are superior to hydrodecimal system
Where do last names go? Why are so many cool or strange surnames practically unheard now?
This makes about as much sense as being drunk and rolling dice.
So he had to multiply by 4, but went fuck it, i will change the rules here and there.
#Logical
I wondered what happened to centigrade
You should do a video on what it would take for the USA to convert to the metric system, detailing the myriad ways the country, education system, and industries would have to adjust
Celsius is stupid Fahrenheit is awesome
6 doesn't divide evenly into 64. 16 does, and would be able to be marked by simply dividing the distance between points in half.
Even though I live in the States, I like to use Celsius. Although I'm sure I would get a lot of strange looks from my friends if I said, "It's going to be 28 degrees today." "How nice." "I think I'll go to the beach!"
The Celsius users are all "Celsius is better"! The Fahrenheit users are all "Fahrenheit is better"! But the reality is that it's all arbitrary anyway. Pegging 0 to freezing water and 100 to boiling water is as arbitrary as the way the Fahrenheit model does it. They both have some advantages and downsides. Unlike the metric debate, this one doesn't have a clear winner.
DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD
Why MM/DD/YYYY
Also what you call a Billion is a Milliard.
Celcius FTW
Be gone Freedom Units
A general rule of thumb: If a unit is defined as something not necessarily consistent and repeatable in all measurements, the unit sucks. Human body temperature (length of a foot, size of a barley corn…) varies wildly and that has been known even in the Fahrenheit's days so why did he go with that stupidity beggars reason. Besides, a degree Fahrenheit today is defined using units of Kelvin, pretty much like the whole Imperial scale, so further discussion of what's superior is pointless.
Shout out all my Fahrenheit boyz
My normal body temperature is 97 F. If I get up to 98.6 F, I start to hallucinate from fever. It sucks because they never believe that I'm as sick as I am at the hospital, even though they know damn well that a person's body temperature can vary and even when I tell them that mine is normally 97.
Why are trampolines fun to bounce on?
C° > F°
UGH. VHS rental tapes. Those things were never recorded with the same tracking settings the VCRs were. Always had to fiddle with the tracking until it stabilized, then when you went to watch a regular tape, adjust it back.
You kids and your streaming everything. All you dread is 'BUFFERING," never knowing the horrible sound of a VCR starting to eat a crappy tape, or that line of static that moves up the screen.
The color shift usually meant it was bootleg, or recorded over the air from a UHF channel.