idiggory wrote:
Our temperature scale is the ONLY thing I like more in the English system than the Metric one. All other measurements make more sense in metric, but not temperature. Well, they make SENSE, but smaller numbers are harder to deal with--I don't want to have to process decimal points to figure out what to wear.
Technically speaking, Celsius isn't metric. Metric scale is based on the distance of one meter.
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Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole (at sea level), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology. Since 1983, it is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1â„299,792,458 of a second.
The Celsius scale is based off of water's properties at normal atmospheric pressure.
100 degrees Celsius is water's boiling point.
0 degrees Celsius is water's freezing/melting point.
Makes more sense that negative numbers would display frost. I mean, you still have -1F, right? Rarely used, but it's there. Doesn't make much sense, though, that the temperature turns negative all of a sudden. I get that there's 180 degrees between water's freezing and boiling points on the Fahrenheit scale, but is this a circular scale or what?