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Default Temperature system of the USA

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:42:12 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:

I think 100F was supposed to be human body temperature. I'm not sure
about 0F.


No. Some time back they took the temperature of 10,000 people in
centigrade. They averaged the temperatures. Then they rounded to the
nearest centigrade, or 37C. Then they converted to 98.6F. This implies an
accuracy that is not there.

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