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-13 points

0-150 is the better range, and 75 is right in the middle. 100 is just a hot air temperature most people don’t want to be in but it’s not an extreme.

Saunas can get up to 200 degrees

Hot tubs are usually at 100

Freezers need to be at least 0

You say 15°C. 6° cooler than room temperature. But how much is 6°?

It’s 60°F.

50°F or 10°C is where you need clothes to survive

300, 325, 350 is where you bake cookies (149-176°C)

Fahrenheit has a bunch of 5 and 10s

Saying something like high 70s or low 70s for temp represents an easy way to tell temperature.

21° to 26° for celcius

I walk outside and say “It feels like high 70s today” someone using celcius would say, “Feels like 25°”. If it was a little warmer than “low 80s” compared to “Ehh about 26 or 27°C”

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Why is it okay to say high 70s/low 80s and not high 20s? No one goes outside and says, “Ehh, it feels like 26.6 oC today.”, we just know it is a bit warmer than 25.

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Yeah, I get your point. I think I’m just trying to explain that it all just matters where you grew up and what you used. I go outside today and I do say it feels like a 12 degree day. It’s not that much different.

I must admit, the oven temps are nice, but they are a product of being written in Fahrenheit (if they were written in celcius, it would be round too, like 150c, 160c, 170c, 175c, etc)

But the more I look at it the more I see it’s all just numbers. We put importance to these numbers but they’re all pretty arbitrary, except celcius using 0 as the freezing point for water and 100 as the boiling point- these are two very important measures that are just weird for Fahrenheit.

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When do you use 0° and 100°C?

This is also at standard pressure and most do not live at sea level.

I don’t put a thermometer in my water to make sure it is boiling or one in my water to make sure it freezes.

It can snow and roads can ice before it hits 0°C

It has no real world applications

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I thought we left pedants with reddit.

Take care.

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6 points

0-150 is the better range

Depends on where you live. Someone in Siberia would probably disagree, as the temperature there can reach -40

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