LogFAQs > #904431378

Blightzkrieg posted...

You say this every time this comes up and I honestly never understand what the fuck you mean.

Numerical measurements of temperature are all artificial creations.

Fahrenheit is a 0-100 scale keyed to human tolerances. 0 is about as low as temperatures can go and be survivable long-term without significant preparation or artificial means of heating. Meanwhile, 100 is around the upper tier of human environment. For everything you'll need vis-a-vis human experience, it's an effective scale.

Celsius, on the other hand, is less precise for human temperatures - because it's based on the freezing and boiling points of water, it doesn't map as precisely. 0 is cold (and potentially damaging over time without clothing), but it isn't really the lower threshold of human life (which is more like -18). Meanwhile, the upper limit caps at around 38. And a range of -18 to 38 is inelegant as fuck.

Basically, Fahrenheit gives you more gradiated info that is more useful to daily life (namely, outdoor temperature/weather readings and internal body temperature readings). Celsius is more useful for more precise measurements involving more extreme temperatures (ie, scientific applications). Though arguably, Celsius is almost entirely redundant considering the existence of the Kelvin scale - so if anything, if we're going to discount relative scaling, Fahrenheit has far more right to exist than Celsius does at this point.


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