is this right?

[Starless]

Hopefully this will end this off-topicness and perhaps help our poor thread maker with his/her problem.

Metric units were designed to be easy to compute and remember, which they are. King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk. Kilo, Hecta, Deca, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli. 9 years since I learned that and I can still remember it off the top of my head.

Imperial units were designed to be closer to everyday measurements. Example being 0° and 100° Fahrenheit were taken from the temperature of a dead and live body. (Obviously they were a slight bit off on the live one, but hey.)

[Khamsin]

Hopefully this will end this off-topicness and perhaps help our poor thread maker with his/her problem.

Metric units were designed to be easy to compute and remember, which they are. King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk. Kilo, Hecta, Deca, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli. 9 years since I learned that and I can still remember it off the top of my head.

Imperial units were designed to be closer to everyday measurements. Example being 0° and 100° Fahrenheit were taken from the temperature of a dead and live body. (Obviously they were a slight bit off on the live one, but hey.)

well after reinstaling and doing file check its working

OP's problem is solved. This thread is now about measurements.

As for 0°F being the temperature of a dead body, I'd say they're a slight bit off on that, too. Unless the person died by hypothermia in Alaska.

[Charla]

Fahrenheit scale
Fahrenheit needed to associate a scale with his thermometers in order to use them to record temperature. His initial work with a temperature scale was based on three benchmarks. His low temperature mark was the coldest temperature attainable under laboratory conditions at that time: a mixture of water, ice and ammonium chloride[2]. Fahrenheit defined that as 0°F (approx. -17.8°C). Next was the freezing point of water, which he set at 32°F. Finally, he defined the human body temperature as 96°.

Later, with the aid of a mercury thermometer that could measure higher temperatures, Fahrenheit adjusted his scale[3] so the high end was the boiling point of water, which he put at 212°F. With the adjustment, normal human body temperature moved to the now familiar 98°F. Fahrenheit's final temperature scale has 180 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water.

The way I heard it, he picked 96 for the original high end of the scale because it was 2*2*2*2*2*3, so it was easy to fold something a few times to make the marks for a thermometer. The idea behind making 0 the lowest temperature "possible" was the same one Kelvin had later, only Kelvin was able to extrapolate using gas expansion, and calculated absolute zero before it could be observed.

[Septimus]

Hopefully this will end this off-topicness and perhaps help our poor thread maker with his/her problem.

Metric units were designed to be easy to compute and remember, which they are. King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk. Kilo, Hecta, Deca, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli. 9 years since I learned that and I can still remember it off the top of my head.

Imperial units were designed to be closer to everyday measurements. Example being 0° and 100° Fahrenheit were taken from the temperature of a dead and live body. (Obviously they were a slight bit off on the live one, but hey.)

well after reinstaling and doing file check its working

OP's problem is solved. This thread is now about measurements.

As for 0°F being the temperature of a dead body, I'd say they're a slight bit off on that, too. Unless the person died by hypothermia in Alaska.

0 degrees is based off of the temperature that salt water freezes. 100 degrees is based off of the average body temperature of a species of bird. (I think it is a swallow of some sort.) They were picked because salt water froze at the lowest temperature of any water solution (with common ingredients available at the time), and the average temperature of the species of bird was the warmest average of any animal that he was able to get a hold of.

At least this is the story that my High-School Physics teacher told us long ago.

[Khamsin]

With all these stories of how exactly he set the high end of the scale, I'm more inclined to believe he just used the temperature of his ass.

[Midnitelouie]

King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk.

Um...which King Henry?

King Henry I, who was the Lion of Justice?

-or-

King Henry II, who started the whole House of Plantagenet?

[Septimus]

With all these stories of how exactly he set the high end of the scale, I'm more inclined to believe he just used the temperature of his ass.

No, that was only 96 degrees on his original scale. lol

[Siralin]

Hopefully this will end this off-topicness and perhaps help our poor thread maker with his/her problem.

Metric units were designed to be easy to compute and remember, which they are. King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk. Kilo, Hecta, Deca, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli. 9 years since I learned that and I can still remember it off the top of my head.

Imperial units were designed to be closer to everyday measurements. Example being 0° and 100° Fahrenheit were taken from the temperature of a dead and live body. (Obviously they were a slight bit off on the live one, but hey.)

well after reinstaling and doing file check its working

OP's problem is solved. This thread is now about measurements.

As for 0°F being the temperature of a dead body, I'd say they're a slight bit off on that, too. Unless the person died by hypothermia in Alaska.

0 degrees is based off of the temperature that salt water freezes. 100 degrees is based off of the average body temperature of a species of bird. (I think it is a swallow of some sort.) They were picked because salt water froze at the lowest temperature of any water solution (with common ingredients available at the time), and the average temperature of the species of bird was the warmest average of any animal that he was able to get a hold of.

At least this is the story that my High-School Physics teacher told us long ago.

<King Arthur> What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

[Max™]

Hopefully this will end this off-topicness and perhaps help our poor thread maker with his/her problem.

Metric units were designed to be easy to compute and remember, which they are. King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk. Kilo, Hecta, Deca, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli. 9 years since I learned that and I can still remember it off the top of my head.

Imperial units were designed to be closer to everyday measurements. Example being 0° and 100° Fahrenheit were taken from the temperature of a dead and live body. (Obviously they were a slight bit off on the live one, but hey.)

well after reinstaling and doing file check its working

OP's problem is solved. This thread is now about measurements.

As for 0°F being the temperature of a dead body, I'd say they're a slight bit off on that, too. Unless the person died by hypothermia in Alaska.

0 degrees is based off of the temperature that salt water freezes. 100 degrees is based off of the average body temperature of a species of bird. (I think it is a swallow of some sort.) They were picked because salt water froze at the lowest temperature of any water solution (with common ingredients available at the time), and the average temperature of the species of bird was the warmest average of any animal that he was able to get a hold of.

At least this is the story that my High-School Physics teacher told us long ago.

<King Arthur> What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

I... I don't know.


*aieeeeeeeeeee*

[Otaku]

How many feet can a coconut-laden swallow travel?

Err wait.. was that an African Swallow, or a European Swallow?

TRICK QUESTION! European birds don't travel in feet!

[Byrthnoth]

Well, stupid but true . . .
0 Degrees F was the coldest Fahrenheit could make something.
32 Degrees F is the temperature at which water freezes.

Why 32? Lots of different theories. The one I've heard is that it was his wife's 32nd birthday. Nothing is confirmable, let's just agree that it's stupid.

Of course, Celsius doesn't actually have *that* much more legitimacy. It's not like it's based on some fundamental principle of the universe. They just arbitrarily made 0 the temperature at which water freezes and 100 the temperature at which it boils. What if they had used ethanol? Should we make a new temperature system for alcoholics?

[Khamsin]

Well, stupid but true . . .
0 Degrees F was the coldest Fahrenheit could make something.
32 Degrees F is the temperature at which water freezes.

Why 32? Lots of different theories. The one I've heard is that it was his wife's 32nd birthday. Nothing is confirmable, let's just agree that it's stupid.

Of course, Celsius doesn't actually have *that* much more legitimacy. It's not like it's based on some fundamental principle of the universe. They just arbitrarily made 0 the temperature at which water freezes and 100 the temperature at which it boils. What if they had used ethanol? Should we make a new temperature system for alcoholics?

I think 32 was used just because that's where it fell on the scale of 0 (coldest laboratory temperature) to 98.6 (body heat). Using the 0-98.6 scale, they found the freezing point of water to fall about 32 degrees.

[TacoTaru]

Of course, Celsius doesn't actually have *that* much more legitimacy. It's not like it's based on some fundamental principle of the universe. They just arbitrarily made 0 the temperature at which water freezes and 100 the temperature at which it boils. What if they had used ethanol? Should we make a new temperature system for alcoholics?

The Celsius scale is based on water and 0 and 100 aren't "arbitrarily" chosen, 0 is what it freezes at and 100 is what it boils at at standard atmospheric pressure. I believe it was based on water because water is the most common resource and has characteristics no other compounds have. I can't remember if that's why exactly, memories of my chem classes are haunting me from shitty professors.

Also see this formula as to why its 32:
°F = (°C × 1.8 ) + 32

[Toksyuryel]

Wasn't the foot just the measurement of some random dude's actual foot? lol

[Alistaire]

safety not guaranteed =/

I've only done this once before.

(timetraveler meme derail > who based what temperature scales derail k?)