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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: degrees Celsius
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:13:01 GMT
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:03:59 GMT, in article <32dce3df.16762219@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, B.W. Battin <bbattin@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>Indeed.  Fahrenheit is geared to the human condition.   Anything above
>100 is unusually hot; anything below zero is unusually cold.
>
>Celsius is fine for scientific work, but human beings don't live in
>test tubes.  I hear the temperature given as X degrees Celsius, and
>before it means anything to me I have to attempt to convert it to the
>*real* temperature.  I think most Americans feel this way.

As someone else has already pointed out, it's just "ingrained in the
American culture", nothing inherently good about F (or C, for that
matter).  Having lived in HK for ~20 years and Canada for the rest,
the Fahrenheit scale is completely meaningless to me. I once lived
in a small town that reports temperature in Fahrenheit, and I had
to convert them to Celsius to figure out what the real temperature is.

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