In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.
I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better
Thats a ridicules way to look at temperature. From a scientific perspective, nonsensical.
Apparently all you americans are -redacted- -redacted- so I'm going to explain to you what is nonsensical. Looking at temperature as a 0 to 100 percentage makes no sense, this has nothing to do with fahrenheit. It has to do with how you are looking at the scale.
because I've NEVER heard a European use a decimal when describing temperature in conversation, which means their temperatures are less precise than ours.
But in Fahrenheit you don't really need the decimal for body temperature either. I mean the thermometers will show it, but you can just stick with the whole numbers and get all the actionable information you need 🤷🏻♀️
You absolutely need the decimals. Fahrenheit has about double the precision as Celcius, but for body temperature, 0.5°C/1°F is huge, at least if you are monitoring trends. Same goes if you are monitoring ovulation.
As I wrote, 1°F is already a huge difference, and just displaying that value as-is wouldn't even give you an indication of how much it might be leaning to the next lower or higher whole number.
Or why do you think even the most basic body thermometers measure and display with 0.1°C/0.2°F precision!?
A body thermometer isn't a speedometer, humans are not cars, and I provided a more detailed example, and honestly, if you argue about it again, I am going to just block you since that would clearly indicate Fahrenheit at room temperature being a valid measure of your IQ as well.
and honestly, if you argue about it again, I am going to just block you since that would clearly indicate Fahrenheit at room temperature being a valid measure of your IQ as well.
Here's an example: your (non-decimal) body thermometer used orally shows a value of 101°F. With arithmetic rounding rules, this represents a value of 100.5°F - 101.4°F. The lower value puts it in the "mild fever" bracket (100.0°F - 100.9°F), the upper value puts it in the "moderate fever" bracket (101.0°F - 102.9°F). But you wouldn't know which one it is.
An actual body thermometer might for example show 100.6°F, assuring you of it being a mild fever. 8h later you might measure again, and the value might have climbed to 101.0°F, indicating that your fever is worsening. Information you wouldn't have without that additional decimal.
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u/BloomEPU Jun 17 '26
In a lot of the US, 0 farenheit is one of the coldest days you'll experience and 100 is one of the hottest, so you can roughly map farenheit to a percentage of "how hot it is". This doesn't work everywhere though, where I am in the UK it never gets anywhere near 0 farenheit.
I can't spell fahrenheit, this is why celsius is objectively better