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maybe it’s a climate thing? Where do you live, here in ameica it’s quite literally the best way to describe it. We see swings below 0f at the coldest parts of the year, and upwards of 100+ in the hottest parts of the year.

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So why not make the temperature go to the hottest? Let me guess, 0 isn’t the coldest either in America, right? It’s just so arbitrary, and pure cope to say it’s the best way to describe temperature.

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The records are -80°F and 134°F

That’s quite an error in a “whole human experience in zero to one hundred” system

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It’s just so arbitrary

All of them are. The decision to use water at all is completely arbitrary. Even Kelvin and Rankine are completely arbitrary: the “width” of the degrees is not defined by a physical factor, but relative to an entirely arbitrary concept.

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We live on a water planet. The weather we care about is water.

If you look at the overnight low you probably want to know if frost was likely. Guess what Celcius temperature frost happens at.

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Technically all arbitrary, but Fahrenheit is definitely on a whole different level of arbitrary.

Celsius - 0 = precise freezing point of water and 100 = precise boiling point

Kelvin - same as C, but shifted so 0 is the precise lowest possible temperature

Fahrenheit - 0 is the imprecise freezing point of some random brine mixture, 100 is the imprecise average body temperature of the developer

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why not make it more arbitrary? Why not leave metric rules and use something like twelve that has fractions? Because it’s nice. It’s pleasing having it be 0f and 100f, it’s a clean range, and it’s also pretty comprehensive in terms of the temperature variance.

It just happens to work out pretty nicely.

You’re literally just applying the anti-thesis of the metric system to the question, and asking me why we don’t do it that way, idk what you’re expecting me to say here.

do celsius users not consider something like -20c to be “pretty cold” and 40c to be “pretty hot” That’s equally as arbitrary.

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