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Benedict Arnold

Fahrenheit or Celsius? Which one is the better system? Why? Which one do YOU identify with?

Posted - January 29, 2017
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  • Celsius i dont make sense in fahrenheit 

      January 29, 2017 11:02 PM MST
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  • i always scratch my head when some one tell me temperature in fahrenheit
      January 29, 2017 11:03 PM MST
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  • I grew up with Fahrenheit but we use Celsius now. I'm kind of ambidextrous. :) 
      January 29, 2017 11:30 PM MST
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  • 508
    Canada- we use Celcius and metric for most things. although- i would have a difficult time getting use to using a metric oven if they switched that over as well (use to cooking with fahrenheit) This post was edited by Skunky Stinkerson at January 29, 2017 11:31 PM MST
      January 29, 2017 11:06 PM MST
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  • I'd have the same problems if my oven switched to Fahrenheit. Some things ya just gotta have at your fingertips without too much thought. 
      January 29, 2017 11:31 PM MST
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  • "They're both just reference systems. Use the one you grew up with."
    You feel cold ... you look at the temperature gauge and it shows 85 degrees.
    You say to yourself, "There must be something wrong with me!"
      January 29, 2017 11:12 PM MST
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  • We've been using Celsius in Oz for about 30 years now but if I want to know how hot I am I still think in terms of the Fahrenheit I grew up with. So, yeah, I definitely agree with that. 
      January 29, 2017 11:35 PM MST
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  • 5451
    I would have thought you would have had the opposite problem being covered with fur and all.

    Your summer look is much more fitting those for 85 degree days.

      January 30, 2017 3:09 PM MST
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  • Livvie! Have you been exchanging skin shots with Alf? 
      January 30, 2017 3:16 PM MST
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  • 5451
    Shhh don't tell anybody!




      January 30, 2017 6:56 PM MST
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  • It was just an example.  You are right, of course, Dear.
      January 30, 2017 4:32 PM MST
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  • I prefer Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit allows smaller intervals and less use of decimals. Celsius temperatures mean little to me. 100 degrees sounds hot. 37 doesn't. 
      January 29, 2017 11:30 PM MST
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  • It's 42C where I am right now. I'm inside with the air conditioning but this morning I cut the grass. Believe me, it felt hot in either scale. :) 
      January 29, 2017 11:36 PM MST
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  • What Nevan said.   Neither system is really better or more accurate than the other.  However Fahrenheit is based a bigger scale so the intervals are smaller meaning it can be more accurately expressed using whole numbers. Both are arbitrary systems based on silly standards but Fahrenheit is in a ll reality more practical and better expresses slight variations in temperature. The only advantage to Celsius is it has dumbed down reference standards that are great if you're concern is boiling water and making ice but really offers no practical advantages.

    If you want the best standard though it's kelvins.
      January 30, 2017 2:17 AM MST
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  • Thoughtful. I hadn't thought about being able to show variations more easily in Fahrenheit. Thanks. 
      January 30, 2017 3:17 PM MST
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  • 10980
    I have always used Fahrenheit and I am used to it. As others said it's more precise. When I need to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, when traveling, for example, I double the number and add 30 to get an approximate result. 
      January 30, 2017 4:10 AM MST
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  • I'm lazy. I just ask Google. :) 
      January 30, 2017 3:18 PM MST
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  • 184
    I grew up using Fahrenheit. However because of my travels over the years I can use Celsius and metric is need be. I prefer Fahrenheit, it sort of comes natural.
      January 30, 2017 5:43 AM MST
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  • 34171
    Fahrenheit...I think it makes more sense for weather.


    Celsius is good for science as it is based on water. 
      January 30, 2017 5:51 AM MST
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  • Thanks, 2C. 
      January 30, 2017 3:19 PM MST
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  • 2218
    Whatever numbers you're used to.

    I think Celsius is something of a fancy name for Centigrade as it used to be known much more descriptively. 

    Try Kelvin if you wish to be different. 

     This post was edited by Malizz at January 30, 2017 3:19 PM MST
      January 30, 2017 6:10 AM MST
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  • I never understood why we changed from Centigrade to Celsius. Still, that's what we're using now. Kelvin? That's opening a whole new range of extremes. :)
      January 30, 2017 3:20 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i like farenheit better, i dont understand celcius
      January 30, 2017 9:59 AM MST
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  • We had to make the change when we switched from imperial to metric in the late 1970s. 100F still has more meaning for me than 38C. 
      January 30, 2017 3:21 PM MST
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