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Default Temperature system of the USA

James Wilkinson Sword was thinking very hard :
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:32:52 +0100, wrote:

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

On 10/22/2016 10:45 AM, Bod wrote:
Anu ideas why the USA hasn't changed to the Centigrade system?
Only a handful of countries use fahrenheit today.

Centigrade makes a much more logical system.
Centigrade: 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling.

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


I think zero f was when a saturated brine solution freezes.


No, that's -21C = -5.8F.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigorific_mixture