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perl4ever on July 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: IT Without Software

Do you know 212 = 100 = boiling, 32 = 0 = freezing, -40 = -40, and 98.6 = 37 = body temperature?

I have no trouble remembering those, and that the ratio of degree sizes is 5/9ths, so I can figure a formula out whenever I need to.

photojosh on July 4, 2021 [–]

Sure, I can work it out, and I do use F when talking to friends from the USA. My only point was that I deal with hex numbers all day, so they're more intuitive to me than Fahrenheit is.

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