Fahrenheit?

Cobra said:
Absolutely!
They work mostly in "imperial" .
Their gallons are SMALLER than ours, though, which I find quite astonishing :D
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Damn. Better cancel my gallon moonshine order if i'm not getting as much :banghead:
 
Nod said:
Is Celsius a scale? We were taught that Celsius is a temperature differential but Centigrade is the scale, so 100°C is the difference between freezing and boiling water in Celsius but the temperature at which water boils in Centigrade.
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That works out as 373 degrees on the Kelvin scale. But today, it is going to be 298 K this afternoon if it does stay sunny for long enough. :cool: :D
 
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Steve Smith said:
I thought everyone knew it was 1760 yards to the mile or 5280 feet.
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I suppose it is easier for older folks like myself, who ran on a 440 yard (quarter mile) track at school.
Getting back to Celsius and Fahrenheit, I always think 20C (around 70F?) is comfortable, and 30C is quite hot.
When I looked at the thermometer in our South facing back garden (which I call "Hades"), it was around the 38C mark, and I beat a hasty retreat back into the relative cool of the North facing living room.
 
CaveDweller said:
Damn. Better cancel my gallon moonshine order if i'm not getting as much :banghead:
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And make sure the HMG only tax you on 6.6pints Not the full 8 pints (y)

andy700 said:
I suppose it is easier for older folks like myself, who ran on a 440 yard (quarter mile) track at school.
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I was at school during the great "metric invasion"
I had just finished learning 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard 16oz/ lb 240 pennies to the £ etc etc.

And then had to start again with the 28g grammes to the oz, 25.4 mm to the inch. 39.4 in. to the meter. (rounded up ;)
So actually I do find it quite easy to switch from one to the other.
 
Three score years less three and I prefer ambient temperatures in Farenheit but all other cooking, scientific or engineering temperatures in Celsius except when I want to burn paper! ;)

At three score years less three, I'm also just about the youngest who can still add up pre-decimal currency - essentially you had to be old enough to receive pocket money.! I wish I had 6/8d and 13/4d for every tanner, bob, florin, and half crown I added up!
 
I can do the LSD too and I'm considerably younger than Jon! Not sure why but while I'm ambimetrous in many cases, temperature is always in C or in K. I know a few points in F but not many.
 
I doubt I can do LSD anymore, but I did enjoy it in my youth:)

I also can remember a few C to F conversions (eg 10C = 50F, 20C = 68F, 28C = 82F) from when I used to do the conversion, but I don't bother with them now. I know that for me if the weather forecast says anything above about 22 - 23C it is going to be hot.

I am really confused by America still using imperial measurements (even if some of their similarly named units are different from ours) especially for any scientific work; the metric system is just so much easier.

Dave
 
Nod said:
Is Celsius a scale? We were taught that Celsius is a temperature differential but Centigrade is the scale, so 100°C is the difference between freezing and boiling water in Celsius but the temperature at which water boils in Centigrade.
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I always understood them to be just different names for the same thing.

Seems Wikipedia agrees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius
 
Steve Smith said:
It's the same with distance measurements. For engineering work, I use millimetres. Steve.
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I can't do that. I just can't 'see' a millimetre ... never have been able to. Now if someone asked me what 40 thou looked like, I can see that straight away.
 
Did the change to Celsius when I got a weather station and started posting on The Weather Outlook and Net Weather forums.
 
I'm 61. Grew up in the UK with imperial measurements and pre-decimal currency, but moved to SA in my mid 20s and had to adjust to the metric system. It was actually illegal to sell anything showing imperial units - imported products had them blanked out - and we just got used to it. I'm hopeless with imperial when I'm in the UK now, I even convert miles to kilometres in my head to get a rough idea of distances, and I'm lost when people talk about yards, stones and pints etc.
 
Ian D J said:
That works out as 373 degrees on the Kelvin scale. But today, it is going to be 298 K this afternoon if it does stay sunny for long enough. :cool: :D
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Kelvin all the way!

Oh 58 yo and comfy with Celcius Fahrenheit and Kelvin.

My kids are all Celcius and ignore Fahrenheit.

Steve
 
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boliston said:
It seems strange that almost everything in the UK is now metric but they still have road signs in yards and miles - i guess there is resistance from people like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2002118.stm
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About the time merkel did something about it! It is really time to say goodbye to all imperial units, plus it is much nicer to do 120 on a motorway :)
 
boliston said:
it could be 110 though - eu seems to have a mix of 110/120/130 although 120 seems the most popular
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Still looks better just like 50 is not as bad as 30!

edit: actually a pint is better than 0.50 L when it comes to certain liquids!

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POAH said:
I use the Kelvin scale :(
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It is the proper SI unit, but to be fair C is barely offset by a couple (hundred) degrees to a relevant reference point, unlike F******* that doesn't seem to make much logical sense.

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CentigradeX2 add 30 will put you in the ball park for "Human" Farenheit temps. Farenheit shoved down my throat in School but switched to Centigrade when I "discovered" it. It sort of makes sense,bloody cold at zero,bloody hot at 100. I,m 67.
 
labradoodler said:
CentigradeX2 add 30 will put you in the ball park for "Human" Farenheit temps. Farenheit shoved down my throat in School but switched to Centigrade when I "discovered" it. It sort of makes sense,bloody cold at zero,bloody hot at 100. I,m 67.
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What ballpark are you in? By 35 Degrees you're fully 4 degrees out. :LOL:
 
boliston said:
It's a bit like pounds for weight - at least 1kg = 1 litre of water and it divides down nicely and logically
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Would that imperial had a volume to mass equivalency based on the density of water. For example, something simple, like a UK gallon of water weighing 10 pounds (avoirdupois, not sterling).

Oh, it does! (or, a fluid ounce of water weighs one ounce)

I'm 45 and can work in both systems. I remember when I was about nine years old I was the only person in my class at school that knew all the imperial measurements. There are some situations I prefer imperial and some I prefer SI. For things like tappet shim thickness, or points gap, imperial is much more friendly as one thousandth of an inch is just the right step. Also, I don't get why building sheet materials are sold in 1220x2440mm sheets, which is 4'x8'. Just say 4' by 8' instead of some obscure number of millimeters!
 
When I was younger, it was very much Farenheit but these days, all the weather forecasts on tv/radio and on the apps use celsius so I've pretty much converted over myself.

Oh, and I'm 50 + 1 day.
 
MHR for yesterday, Marc. It's only a number!
 
Also bear in mind the American always use the Fahrenheit scale, probably because it sounds more awesome.
 
I'm not old enough to have ever seen a Farenheight. Are there any even left in the wild now?
 
A few but the feral haggises are slowly reducing their numbers.
 
It'll be a while but it's going to be weird sleeping with a 50 year old!!! (Although Mrs Nod says it's much better than sleeping with a 49 year old...)
 
Whilst the British gallon is an Imperial measurement, actually the American gallon is a US customary measurement.

I use celsius and metric measurements (almost) exclusively .

Anthony aged 69.3/4
 
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