On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 2:52:17 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:54:48 +0000, Bod wrote:

On 04/02/2018 17:11, wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:51:08 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

I've been trying to buy four refrigerator/freezer thermometers and it's
frustrating how inaccurate/inconsistent they are.



http://www.leevalley.com/us/garden/P...=2,40733,40734


As an aside, I'm surprised that the US is still using Fahrenheit instead
of the universal Centigrade.
There's only about 8 countries that still use F.

Fahrenheit remains the official scale for the following countries:

The Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau and the United States and
associated territories (Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands).
Canada retains it as a supplementary scale that can be used alongside
Celsius.

We use what we are used to. OTOH Fahrenheit gives you about twice the
precision without resorting to decimals. I am comfortable with both
since my science friends are all C
Exactly.

Unlike the metric system for mass, length, volume, etc., there is no calculation advantage to using C over F.

They are both 100 point scales invented by Europeans. The C scale is 100 degrees between freezing and boiling, the F scale is 100 degrees between how cold and how hot it normally got outside in Europe.