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Originally Posted by Harmon
I think that the F scale accidentally works on the basis of 0 to 100, and I'll bet that if you think about it, you'll find that you are comfortable in any system that is so based.
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It wasn't an accident though. It was deliberately designed to be like that. He took an earlier scale (Romer) which was 0 to 60 (water boiling) and made it more granular, keeping the 0 and making 100 being body temperature (though he was a little off there)
The zero was a little arbitrary (frozen saltwater, I think) but basing it around human body temperature does make more sense than the boiling point of water (which never actually happens in everyday life)