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Celsius or Fahrenheit?
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Celcius. 0 is the temperature where water begins to freeze. 100 is the temperature where it begins to boil. Simple definition, easy to use.
Celsius. Farenheit is dumb as hell and the only time it's ever used in the UK these days is so stupid papers can say it's 100 degrees in a heatwave
Fahrenheit forever. It actually deals with normal possible temperatures for humans on a range of 0-100 and as such is massively more useful for communicating weather and comfort information. I'm not a water molecule; I'm a person and as a such I care about people specific methods of measurement infinitely more, because I don't especially care about or need to measure/be aware of the relative activity level of a random element which I am not. If I want a scientific approach I'd use Kelvin. Celsius is useless.
If you want to pretend like you boil water by setting a temperature on a stove and then letting it sit there, or freeze water by setting a temperature in a freezer and hoping you got it right, be my guest. I'm going to live in the land of practical reality.
If you want to pretend like you boil water by setting a temperature on a stove and then letting it sit there, or freeze water by setting a temperature in a freezer and hoping you got it right, be my guest. I'm going to live in the land of practical reality.
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Come on, that's Celcius with a translation.
If "normal possible temperatures" is what Fahrenheit is about, they may want to reconsider the scale a hundred years from now, thanks to global warming.
With just a cup of water you can categorically tell the range of temperature you're in.
100°F is like body temperature but this changes so wildly depending on the condition of the person that it borders on uselessness.
What the fuck is 0°F, who the fuck cares it's not something you'll ever need to even experience.
On top of that any calculation on temperature with other dimensions becomes wonky because it's so arbitrary
Fahrenheit is what inches and stones are to the metric system : useless shit that makes life harder for no reason.
100°F is like body temperature but this changes so wildly depending on the condition of the person that it borders on uselessness.
What the fuck is 0°F, who the fuck cares it's not something you'll ever need to even experience.
On top of that any calculation on temperature with other dimensions becomes wonky because it's so arbitrary
Fahrenheit is what inches and stones are to the metric system : useless shit that makes life harder for no reason.
Fahrenheit just seems extremely arbitrary. 0 and 100 degrees Celsius are highly important points on the scale.
Also should have included Indigo Prophecy on the poll.
Also should have included Indigo Prophecy on the poll.
Wait what is the significance of 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
I prefer Fahrenheit because it's about as granular as I can feel. 72 degrees? Good. 73 degrees? Living on the sun.
All systems of temperature are just each other with a translation. At least the big 3 are.
All systems of temperature are just each other with a translation. At least the big 3 are.
Honestly depends on the context. For scientific measurement purposes, Celsius or Kelvin. Fahrenheit works better for anything else. Whole numbers in Celsius have too much of a range. As a number that represents how hot/cold the air/whatever feels to a human, Fahrenheit makes more sense.
This, basically.
There's not a definitive best IMO.
For scientific purposes, it should most certainly be Celsius if for no other reason than to standardize.
That said, in terms of general usage in things like thermostats or non-science applications of weather (i.e. news forecasts), I feel like Fahrenheit works better in the sense that you don't have to drop into decimal points to establish smaller differences in temperature that are very noticeable to a human being.
For scientific purposes, it should most certainly be Celsius if for no other reason than to standardize.
That said, in terms of general usage in things like thermostats or non-science applications of weather (i.e. news forecasts), I feel like Fahrenheit works better in the sense that you don't have to drop into decimal points to establish smaller differences in temperature that are very noticeable to a human being.
Celsius is obviously better for any scientific purpose as it gives you a standard range based on an easily understood spectrum.
But Fahrenheit is significantly better for people living in temperate climates, where the 0-100 is "very cold" to "very hot." It allows more granularity than Celsius, which really only has ~40 degrees of livable temperature.
But Fahrenheit is significantly better for people living in temperate climates, where the 0-100 is "very cold" to "very hot." It allows more granularity than Celsius, which really only has ~40 degrees of livable temperature.
That's because you're only looking for cooking recipes in the angloworld where people still uses imperial system.
Either way, it's a much widely relevant and therefore much more useful scale to humans, because although I might contain a lot of water, I am not a water molecule.
Interesting, you as a person never have encountered a time where you need to consider frozen nor boiling water. (But also often enough need to know 0f, which is about -18C?)
What a strange life you must live!
I think they mean translation in the mathematical sense, as in adding a constant.
I don't need to be aware of either of those temperatures to get to those points, although I still know them for Fahrenheit. If I was a scientist who often dealt with phase change I'd care, but I'm not.
It comes down to what you are used to and if you can convey the information you want accurately (which would depend on who is the interlocutor). Both are good and fine, depending on who you are talking to. Having that in mind, I prefer Celsius, because that is what I am used to.
So Celsius is good enough for science, but too inaccurate for everyday use
Should've said linear translation. An increase of 1,00000 on the scale of Celcius is also an increase of 1,00000 on the scale of Kelvin.
C = K - 273,15.
It's a simple division, whereas F to C involves a division: C = (F-32)/1,8
Both Celsius and Fahrenheit have the same degree of precision unless we're going to pretend that decimals don't exist or are complicated.
If only we had decimals
LOL
And it's not like a .5°C difference is a big deal. Weather reports don't have decimals because literally nobody cares, 22 or 23.
Celcius.
How cold? How hot? It didn't tell you anything much, edit- or at least I've never heard of the frame of reference used that is specifically relevant for a normal person.
0° Fahrenheit is the temp where weather is getting cold so it works well.
Celsius is the objectively better unit of measure, but as an American I'm voting fahrenheit just to fuck with ya'll. It's what I grew up with using colloquially and so those fahrenheit numbers have more personal meaning for me, but since like 5th grade I've used celsius measures for any academic pursuits. Most people are taught both in the US, but the only one reinforced day to day -- TV, every day conversations, videogames, sports, etc -- is fahrenheit so after school a lot of that knowledge drops away unless you're in a field that temperature measurements are important.
Also shoutout to Fairbanks Alaska the only place in the US where people can say "Fahrenheit... Celsius... What's the difference?"
Also shoutout to Fairbanks Alaska the only place in the US where people can say "Fahrenheit... Celsius... What's the difference?"
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Fahrenheit obviously. It makes the most sense.
0F is the freezing temperature of a brine mixture including ammonium chloride, which is far more useful for people to know than 0C being the freezing temperature of water. The boiling point of water is 212F, which is a much easier number to remember than 100C.
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0F is the freezing temperature of a brine mixture including ammonium chloride, which is far more useful for people to know than 0C being the freezing temperature of water. The boiling point of water is 212F, which is a much easier number to remember than 100C.
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I'm old enough that both were in common usage for air temperature in my country growing up. Celsius makes much more sense and is superior. I only use Fahrenheit for cooking because all the damn instructions here still use it.
Celsius, because having multiple systems just because one feels better in some situations, is dumb.
All imperial measurements are pretty dumb and arbitrary. People saying farenheit are only really saying it because they are used to being told temperatires in farenheit if you were told temps in celcius all your life youd think celcius was the better measure of temperatures humans experience...
I don't get this. Zero degree Fahrenheit is -17 in Celsius, while 100F is 37C. How often are you using those integers below 32F?
Fahrenheit feels like the IGN review scale of temperature measurement. Pointlessly granular.
Why would I need a range of 0-100 for communicating comfort information? What good does that granularity do? Celsius has decimal points and no one cares about them - Because most people can't tell the difference between say 22 and 23. You just check the general range (is it low 20s, high 20s, low 30s etc.)
What? I don't think you have a grasp on how a temperature scale works lol
The upper half? There are no "halves", what are you talking about?
GETTING cold!? Where the hell do you live if you think that!?
Around here, most people gripe about 50 degrees, but I don't mind it getting down near freezing.
Celsius by far. Anything below 0C is when water freezes and anything above 100C is when water boils.
Fahrenheit makes no sense at all.
Fahrenheit makes no sense at all.
Fahrenheit:
- 0: Extremely cold
- 10: Very cold
- 20: Chilly
- 30: Cold
- 40: Below average
- 50: Average
- 60: Above-average
- 70: Nice weather
- 80: Hot
- 90: Very hot
- 100: Extremely hot
- 0: Cold
- 10: Below average
- 20: Above-average
- 30: Very hot
- 40: Extremely hot
- 50: Everything's on fire and I'm dying!
- 60: Everything's on fire and I'm dying!
- 70: Everything's on fire and I'm dying!
- 80: Everything's on fire and I'm dying!
- 90: Everything's on fire and I'm dying!
- 100: Everything's on fire and I'm dying! Oh, and an arbitrary point where water boils.