Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig, y = sin x would have a negative slope at x = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.
(I made up Albert Sine. I don't know that there's anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he'd go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)
Yeah, celsius users will be like "I can't understand this scientific celsius scale, how can I possible know whether it is saying I should wear shorts or a big fur coat. I wish I had a human scale".
Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
it's a pretty interesting science experiment. it was the temperature of a mix of water, ice and ammonium chloride, which forms a eutectic mixture that stabilises itself at the temperature that fahrenheit chose as zero.
...he didn't write down the amounts he used though.
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passepartout@feddit.org · 44 pts · 334d
Fahrenheit 451
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 334d
Is that not -90f?
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 334d
Nah if 0° is upright 90° rotates that counterclockwise. Blame trig.
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 334d
Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 333d
I will blame trigonometry, because orienteering says it’s the other way around.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 333d
Another American thing maybe? Always been clockwise for me
Edit: ah duck me, trig goes the other way round, forgot, everything else is clockwise tho
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig,
y = sin xwould have a negative slope atx = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.(I made up Albert Sine. I don't know that there's anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he'd go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)
blarghly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 334d
100° = really fuckin' hot
0° = really fuckin' cold
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 334d
0°C - pretty cold
100°C - pretty hot, grab a beer with you and remember towel under your ass
GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 334d
What's the beer for? To be paired with the human ham I'll turn into if I am exposed to 100 °C for too long?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 333d
Saunakalja (sauna beer) is a crucial component of Finnish cleansing ritual
Redecco@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
0°C - water go hard 100°C - water make funny bubbles
markz@suppo.fi · 4 pts · 333d
100 is too much. The sweet spot is somewhere around 80.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 333d
I found 118 last month for the first time. It was extremely warm
markz@suppo.fi · 5 pts · 333d
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 333d
Agreed, I just wanted to use same exact numbers as OP
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 2 pts · 334d
It's the one part of Murica measurements that makes decent sense. Science aside I just want to know what to wear that day in a human scale.
Rothe@piefed.social · 4 pts · 333d
Yeah, celsius users will be like "I can't understand this scientific celsius scale, how can I possible know whether it is saying I should wear shorts or a big fur coat. I wish I had a human scale".
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · 3 pts · 333d
Tell a Minnesota native it's gonna be 32 degrees and they'll be out in shorts either way you measure.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 333d
What even is zero Fahrenheit? Isn’t it some random point above freezing that is cold but not that cold?
alt_xa_23@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 333d
Zero Fahrenheit is like -18 C.
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 333d
it's a pretty interesting science experiment. it was the temperature of a mix of water, ice and ammonium chloride, which forms a eutectic mixture that stabilises itself at the temperature that fahrenheit chose as zero.
...he didn't write down the amounts he used though.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 334d
I will never need this information.
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d
Lucky.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 333d
For everyone from the real world, not fluent in retard units.
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
22 yards = 1 chain
10 chains = 1 furlong
8 furlongs = 1 mile
3 miles = 1 league
And here is my favourite 2 dimensional unit:
1 furlong x 1 chain = 1 acre
Edit: bruh.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 334d
mr fahrenheit seems to have a drinking problem
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 334d
0f, you just walked outside of a station in Antarctica
100f, you walked outside in a city built in the middle of a desert during the daytime
-40, the temperatures the same in f or c, but you're not gonna like it regardless
Gustephan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
They call me heat miser Whatever I touch Starts to melt in my clutch!
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 333d
Surely you can’t be serious‽
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 333d
Yes, and don't call the Shirley
weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 333d
90's fine. Hell the 100's are fine. It's when you get to 110 and above that ded
bratorange@feddit.org · 3 pts · 330d
Das hat er wohl aus unerFAHRENHEIT gemacht!
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 330d
I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I'm delighted none the less.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d