"andrew" wrote in message
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I don't see it as being any more efficient, when not just use Fahrenheit?


Celsius is used because that is what the majority of the world uses.
Besides, it is a much more meaningful scale (zero = freezing point of
water, 100 = boiling point of water). Most people can appreciate those
two values quite easily and interpolate between them.

Now, 32F and 212F for freezing/boiling points of water????? That makes
sense.... NOT.

Do you know what zero and 100 Fahrenheit equates to (without looking it
up)? According to http://www.books.md/F/dic/Fahrenheitscale.php it is
"A thermometer scale in which the freezing point of water is 32°F and
the boiling point of water 212°F; 0°F indicates the lowest temperature
Fahrenheit could obtain by a mixture of ice and salt in 1724"!!!!!
That's easy to replicate..... NOT.

It's only a few 'backward' countries that continue to use Fahrenheit


Centigrade isn't a whole lot better, is it?

Defining 272K as 0°C and 372K as 100°C. How stupid is that?

Makes people think that a hot day - 30°C say - is twice as hot as a cool day
15°C. Whereas the real temperatures are 302K and 287K. i.e not much
difference at all.

Its only us stupid humans that *feel* the differnce so much.

Chip.