• undercrust@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Remind me again; what exactly is Fahrenheit based on?

        Fahrenheit temperature scale, scale based on 32° for the freezing point of water and 212° for the boiling point of water, the interval between the two being divided into 180 equal parts.

        Oh right, it’s based on freezing and boiling points, and everything else about it is just wildly arbitrary and unnecessarily complicated.

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          2 months ago

          It is better scale for human habitation. No one goes outside and ask how many degrees from boiling point of water is the weather. That is stupid. Then you use a decimal for finer scale. Just use 0 to 100.

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    2 months ago

    We’re doomed to see this comically bad take again and again unless and until by some miracle the US education system improves

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      2 months ago

      What do you mean? US has the most intellectual capital. Your top 100 universities in the world are mostly in the US.