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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How hot is that in the rest of the world?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Its the same amount of hot in the rest of the world, just measured in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

555.67 Rankine

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's how you convert between the two:

T[°C] = (T[°F] - 32)* 5/9

32°F is 0°C which is why you need the 32 in there. For the fraction I always just try to think about whether Celsius or Fahrenheit is bigger. Accordingly, I'll need a number smaller or larger than one.

edit:

Aight I got the fraction wrong, which kinda proves that it's useless to remember lmao.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The easy way to remember the multiplier is that there's exactly 180 degrees between boiling and freezing in Fahrenheit, and 100 in Celsius. Just use 1.8 instead of a fraction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the -32, hmm? Checkmate, atheists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In Fahrenheit, 0 is the temperature of ice in some random brine, just as 0 in Celsius is the temp of ice water.

Fahrenheit and Celsius are defined nearly identically. Fahrenheit just chose some weird values for its basic constants, like using a weird ice brine instead of just ice water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

32 degrees F is freezing, as is 0 C.

Ramen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I find it easier to do mental arithmetic with the fraction (and I didn't know the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit). But thanks anyways!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That edit lol I used to know this by heart at some point in my life. Now I'm fine knowing that it exists and use software to do it for me instead