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Originally Posted by Harmon
The problem is that human beings, living in normal environments, use only about the first 40 degrees of the C scale, together with a few of the degrees under zero. The other 60 degrees have no meaning until you get to 100, at which point the meaning is just "don't stick your hand in it." Those degrees are wasted, and can't even be recycled or donated to charity.
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Well, more like 65 degrees of usefulness where I live. But even going with your 40 degrees. So what if there is only 40 degrees to play with? Each change in degree has meaning. That is perfect - from a non-scientific, 'human being living in normal environments' perspective.
Why have a scale so wide that moving from one degree to the next really doesn't mean much at all (i.e. can't really be felt). When I lived in the States, I looked at temperature in 5 degree chunks, as, in Fahrenheit, a change by a degree or 2 means next to nothing.