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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that wasn't actually Fahrenheit's intention, more a happy accident. Also if your body temp is 100°F then you're running a mild/moderate fever.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

The scale was adjusted later to make freezing and boiling points land on exact numbers with an easily-divisible 180-dregrees between them (180 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 36, 45, 60, and 90).

https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1098_rstl_1777_0038

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[–] nulluser@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I don't usually run, but when I do, I run a mild/moderate fever.

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