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25 Feb 2017, 2:53 am

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The United States is the only major country where fahrenheit is still in widespread use. Do most Americans understand celsius or is it some strange measurement only really used by scientists? Almost nobody in Britain under the age of 30 knows fahrenheit and it seems to only be used by the older generation.


Well I am used to Fahrenheit, but I try to look at the Cecilius degrees as well same with trying to also see the metric mesurement of something in feet, I suppose I just hope some day I can get used to those as well since the rest of the world uses it and I wont endlessly have to look up 'how many meters is in this many feet' and things like that on google when talking to people outside the U.S.


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26 Feb 2017, 8:41 pm

I don't think they know it.... Americans and British tend to do everything in reverse from the rest of the world.



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Sweetleaf wrote:
Arran wrote:
The United States is the only major country where fahrenheit is still in widespread use. Do most Americans understand celsius or is it some strange measurement only really used by scientists? Almost nobody in Britain under the age of 30 knows fahrenheit and it seems to only be used by the older generation.


Well I am used to Fahrenheit, but I try to look at the Cecilius degrees as well same with trying to also see the metric mesurement of something in feet, I suppose I just hope some day I can get used to those as well since the rest of the world uses it and I wont endlessly have to look up 'how many meters is in this many feet' and things like that on google when talking to people outside the U.S.


Simple algebra Celsius = 5/9 x (Fahrenheit - 32) The Celsius temperature is always a smaller number than the corresponding Fahrenheit temperature. Normal body temperature is about 37.5 degrees Celsius. Water freezes at 0 Celsius and boils at 100 Celsius (assuming normal atmospheric pressure).


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