Sunday, November 22, 2020

Why Fahrenheit is the one true system of degrees

It recognizes that freezing and boiling are diametric opposites.

3 comments:

Bruce Charlton said...

Um - yes. Perhaps this explains the inexplicable? BTW Were you fidgeting with a 360 degree protractor when you noticed this?

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

That would make sense, but no. I somehow noticed it while I was thinking about geocentric astronomy but can no longer reconstruct my train of thought.

A said...

No one ever told me this. Awesome.

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