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I had a different source, but Wikipedia says that you are correct.



In either case, a temperature scale that goes from 0 = “ice on the roads won’t melt it anymore” to 100 = “watch out, heatstroke time” is eminently reasonable for measuring temperatures that humans experience personally.

I understand Celcius is better for times when you want to do math, such as when you are figuring out how many joules it is going to take to boil water for your morning coffee, in the manner that any perfectly normal human being does on a regular basis. Why, it’s just as natural as consulting the periodic table so you can the use nutrition fact Dara on about sodium to estimate the impact of swapping out unsalted butter for salted in your recipe. Which I have done. Once. (It was a very small impact.)




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