• Dabundis@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Farenheit is set up such that temperatures between 0 and 100 convey the subjective feel. 0F is really cold, 100F is really hot. Obviously cold and hot feel is subjective, but what could be more human than subjectivity?

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      4 days ago

      One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 40C.

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        3 days ago

        And celsius fully ignores the effect pressure has on the boiling/melting point of water. Turns out temperature units only measure temperature