Everyone forgets about the most important and sane scale ever created, the Réaumur scale.
As it should be:
0°C=0°Ré
100°C=80°Ré.
Edit: for the love of god, it’s a meme community. Of course it’s not better. I hoped that we don’t have to use the terrible /s bullshit here. ohmygod people, think for a second.
Edit: OK so it was originally using thermometers with alcohol that would boil at 80 but when thermometer makers switched to other liquids they kept the boiling point the same but for water instead…
The Réaumur scale (French pronunciation: [ʁeomy(ː)ʁ]; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the “octogesimal division”,[1] is a temperature scale for which the melting and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees respectively.
80 degrees is not the boiling temperature of water everywhere due to pressure differences. This means it doesn’t have it’s “superior” meaning everywhere.
Everyone forgets about the most important and sane scale ever created, the Réaumur scale.
As it should be:
Edit: for the love of god, it’s a meme community. Of course it’s not better. I hoped that we don’t have to use the terrible /s bullshit here. ohmygod people, think for a second.
Why is 80 better than 100?
Edit: OK so it was originally using thermometers with alcohol that would boil at 80 but when thermometer makers switched to other liquids they kept the boiling point the same but for water instead…
Why most sane?
80 degrees is not the boiling temperature of water everywhere due to pressure differences. This means it doesn’t have it’s “superior” meaning everywhere.
It’s usually defined at sea level
I don’t live at sea level. Why is it superior at my location? 😊 I’m not convinced
Edit: appearantly it was a joke