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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Celsius can be used in place of all three, the others cannot.

The freezing point of water is also a great place to zero the scale.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

i love this idea that water is completely irrelevant to humans, as if it's not like 60% of our mass and vital to living

yeah no let's base the temperature scale around what some english dude felt was comfortable

[–] mac@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Plus 100 is boiling it's a perfect scale.