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Originally Posted by foghat
Not to go way off on a tangent, but the system is broken?? 0C water freezes, 100C water boils. Simple. You exagerate greatly in saying a handful of degrees is the difference between freezing day and a sweltering day.
Granted each 2 or 3 degrees does make a reasonable difference in temperature - which is a good thing. Of course it comes down to what you are used to.
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Sorry, perhaps broken was harsh, I was using a bit of hyperbole to emphasize my point, I certainly don't want to alienate the 95% of the planet that uses Celsius temperatures
, but for me it's not intuitive.
As far as I know, the F scale was chosen based on how the temperature feels to us. 100 is very hot, 0 is very cold. I will admit that C (or Kelvin, as mentioned before) is better for just about anything else, but for weather reports, I will go to my deathbed believing that the Fahrenheit scale is better.
Anyway, I think my greatest takeaway from these locations vs. pages threads is that for a quick conversion, just divide by 10. E.g. location 2046-52 is really page ~204.6. Why Amazon couldn't just do this from the get-go, I don't know, since it would probably save hundreds of virtual trees worth of message board posts.
