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I have only had the temperature described to me in celcius so Fahrenhite makes no sense to me.

What doesn’t make sense to you. You can think of F as a percentage of how hot it is. 0 is 0% hot, meaning cold as fuck. 100 is 100% hot, hot as fuck. Things in the middle are are in the middle. 85 is 85% hot.

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17 points

So 50 F is the ideal temperature?

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Why do you just assume 50% is the ideal?

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If 0 F is 0 % hot, and 100 F is 100 % hot; shouldn’t 50 F be the Goldilocks ideal of neither too hot or too cold at 50 %?

And if 50 F isn’t the Goldilocks ideal, then where on the scale is it?

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And -5 farenheit is… just a bit colder than fuck? I understand what temperatures I start feeling cold perfectly well in Celsius, I know roughly when I’ll need a jacket, when I’ll need a hat and scarf… Farenheit tells me nothing because I don’t know about it. Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”? It’s most likely never going to reach 0°F where I live, and it won’t reach 100°F outside of very rare summer days… Beyond those extremes it’s not useful to me because I don’t know it.

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Sure, 0 is very cold, but where is “cold enough to wear a jacket”?

This is going to vary depending on everyone. I start wearing a jacket at around 60. My wife starts at like 75. So neither system is going to be able to tell you that information

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Checks temp converter

Lol. 80F is approximately 26C. That’s considered mild where I live.

So yeah. Makes fuckall sense to people who’ve grown up with temperature mentioned in Celcius everywhere.

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How does this refute anything in my comment? 80% is fairly “mild”. When 100% i “as hot as it can be”, and 0 is “as cold as it can be”, 80% is a pretty good temperature.

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5/7 comment

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4 points

Lol can’t tell, is this 85% stupid or closer to 100?

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1 point

Are percentages too hard for you?

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5 points

Not nearly as hard as you are working to represent F in chat about personal preference

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3 points

What about 102? Or 3000 (for metals)?

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102%, aka hot as fuck. The whole point is that it describes human environmental temperature. If you’re dealing with melting metals, that’s a scientific application and C would be the better choice

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