Units of temperature, a more useful relative scale

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[Andy Stow]

Forgot Rankine. Labels same as Celcius.

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Rankine is always the red-headed stepchild.

[Anthony Huhn]

Rankine is the absolute Fareinheit scale. The labels should be the same as for the Kelvin scale

[David Thomas]

Even more so than the general student population, the outing club at UC Berkeley was heavy on Chem / Physics / Math geeks. So at a weekly meeting when someone mentioned "-40 degrees" and a Linguistics major asked, "Celsius or Fahrenheit?" the mass response of "It doesn't matter!" was deafening.

[Bob Gross]

David, the same thing happens at every engineering school.

–B.G.–

[Franco Darioli]

Celsius
0 fairly cold
100 dead

we visualise that as :

0 water freezes
100 water boils

both of those pretty familiar with most people around the world.
Yes I do know that it is 100C only at sea level, however boiling water "hot" is a concept familiar to people that live in Arctic regions as it is everywhere, 100f "hot day outside" isn't…( it was 105f the other day here…)

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