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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (56 children)

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago (36 children)

Strange, because it is bullshit.

Fahrenheit isn't how people feel, otherwise 50° would be perfect temperature.

You Americans are just used to thinking in Fahrenheit, that is why you think it is how humans feel. As a European, I "feel" in Celsius.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Fahrenheit literally meant to base the scale with 100 being human body temp.

It was later rescaled by Cavendish to put the freezing point of water at exactly 32 and boiling point at exactly 212, giving a nicely-divisible 180-degree separation between freezing and boiling. That shift is why body temperature is 98.6.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that wasn't actually Fahrenheit's intention, more a happy accident. Also if your body temp is 100°F then you're running a mild/moderate fever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't usually run, but when I do, I run a mild/moderate fever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The scale was adjusted later to make freezing and boiling points land on exact numbers with an easily-divisible 180-dregrees between them (180 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 36, 45, 60, and 90).

https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1098_rstl_1777_0038

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