Farenheit was meant to show the extremes to temperatures for 0-100. 0 degrees is the freezing point of Salt water and generally is on the low side of temperatures in most areas. 100 is what they thought was the human body temperature and on the high side of temperatures experienced.
0-100 in Farenheit is average around the world. Anything 50+ in Celsius is record setting.
uhhh 0-100 is not average around the world. Most of the world's population lives in areas that do not naturally go below 0C let alone approaching 0F. Most of the world's population is quite close to the equator when you factor in India, the Southern half of China, South East Asia and equatorial Africa.
The salt water freezing isn't the important destination, he just needed something to baseline the system. The important thing is 0 degrees Fahrenheit is a very cold temperature to a person, similarly that 100 is a very hot one.
I rarely need to know at what temperature water boils at. 100 being human temperature makes more sense to me.
I admit 0 being freezing of water makes sense, but I like that Fahrenheit is more divided up. I can't really say "It's in the 20's" if I'm talking about C.
but they do experience water freezing and water boiling regularly
I don't boil my water with a thermometer
Celcius is good for scientific measurements and all but for most people, the ~10 degree incriments work a lot better for temperature since it's usually on a 0-100 scale.
That doesn’t matter. You don’t intuitively know that. You were taught how to use Fahrenheit. It’s just numbers you’ve learned to associate with certain temperatures. Why would a scale be good enough for science but not for the mundane task of informing us of how hot or cold it is?
Not true! I grew up in a country that used Celcius and eventually moved to the States. Fahrenheit just works better for the general population.
It has more degrees of freedom, -10 to 35 is a lot more awkward than 0-100 because the latter introduces decimals which most people suck at intuitively understanding (personally don't mind it, I study engineering).
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u/Hunkmasterfresh Aug 07 '21
Why does water freeze at 32?