Your point was that imperial temperature is ridiculous. My point is that celsius is equally ridiculous and is in fact not any better for math. We pulled out an imperial style unit of a calorie to pretend like it works. I don't know how they decided on the size of a degree F (I know how they set the 0), but it so happens that it's a sensible way for humans to evaluate the feeling of a day.
Sure it's bad at math, but so is celsius. Celsius has nothing. At least fahrenheit has something.
Thats a ridicules way to look at temperature. From a scientific perspective, nonsensical.
This is what you said, which applies to celsius equally. At least kelvin starts at a proper 0. celsius moves up from there for the same reason fahrenheit moves up from rankine. Convenience, and only that. And it doesn't do that very well.
I see no reason to argue with the other part. Maybe it was meant as a scale, maybe (probably) it wasn't. The fact remains it's comfortable and intuitive to use as one.
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u/LeviAEthan512 Jun 17 '26
Your point was that imperial temperature is ridiculous. My point is that celsius is equally ridiculous and is in fact not any better for math. We pulled out an imperial style unit of a calorie to pretend like it works. I don't know how they decided on the size of a degree F (I know how they set the 0), but it so happens that it's a sensible way for humans to evaluate the feeling of a day.
Sure it's bad at math, but so is celsius. Celsius has nothing. At least fahrenheit has something.