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I actually think the other way. The Fahrenheit scale is sort of a human scale. 100 degrees is really hot, 0 degrees is really cold and you have a lot finer graduations in between. Here in NC, I mostly live between 0 and 100 F. In Celsius I'd live between -17.8 and 37.8 C. 12.8 C is uncomfortable to me. 23.8 C is near perfect. This is only a 11 degree C swing. 55 to 75 "seems like" a better representation of how I feel as the temperature changes. I suppose this is just what I got used to growing up. Both scales are arbitrary. Mr Fahrenheit picked body temperature for 100 (apparently he was hot blooded or sick) and as cold as he could get water for 0. The metric folks chose water's boiling and freezing at standard pressures for their end points. Of course there is alway Rankine and Kelvin...... If you are working in the big picture world, the larger divisions of the C and K scales are nice.
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