Comment on Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin
s_s@lemmy.one 8 months agoI don’t think how hot humans feel works at all, it’s just arbitrary
Fahrenheit was originally calculated to be 64 even divisions between water freezing temp and human body temp, then 32 more units below freezing.
Then ambient human body temp was recalculated from 96F to 98.6F.
So it’s based on powers of 2 of a bad measurement.
bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I mean, the temperature 0 was assigned because it was the lowest temperature that winter in Fahrenheit’s town, and the “powers of two” was only chosen because it was simple to mark degree lines on his instrument. Feels quite arbitrary to me…
1847953620@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And yet, as a person, Fahrenheit seems far more intuitive and Celsius arbitrary.