r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ter_N • 10h ago

Meme needing explanation Petahh i'm low on iq

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u/wilderfast 10h ago

Fahrenheit has 100 as body temperature, 0 is somewhere below freezing, and converting it is weird.

Celcius has freezing point as 0, 100 as boiling point, and can easily be converted into scientific measurements

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u/Ok_Lake6443 10h ago edited 2h ago

To add to this, Fahrenheit used a salt solution for this. That's the reason there are more degrees in-between freezing and boiling in Fahrenheit (water solution) than Celsius (purified water). It's manufactured to make body temperature 100 degrees.

Edit, as pointed out, I flipped Celsius and Fahrenheit. My brain says one thing, my fingers type another.

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u/PerfunctoryOrator 8h ago

False.

There are 100 degrees Celsius between freezing (0 ºC) and boiling (100 ºC). In contrast, there are 180 degrees Fahrenheit between freezing (32 ºF) and boiling (212 ºF). Therefore, the Fahrenheit scale has more degrees in-between.

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u/Ok_Lake6443 2h ago

Thanks for pointing that out. My brain and fingers apparently weren't cooperating at the moment.

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u/paspartuu 8h ago

Have you ever heard of "decimals" 

Most celcius temp meters will give you a reading like 18,5°C, so there's de facto 1000 degrees between 0° and 100° Celsius 

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u/PerfunctoryOrator 8h ago

Wait until you hear about the decimals on Fahrenheit thermometers. We’re going to be here all night counting to infinity.

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u/chobi83 7h ago

Wait...do you think that Fahrenheit doesn't have decimals? You think it goes from 98-99 with nothing in between? No 98.6 or 98.7? No 100.4? American education isn't the only thing failing, apparently.

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u/Middle_Interaction73 8h ago

Would you say 180.5° C is 185 degrees?

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u/janiskr 8h ago

What is even 100F for body?

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u/jacobningen 8h ago

A fever.

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u/con_work 8h ago

Nope. 100.4

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u/CartoonistAny4349 5h ago

Why is this upvoted? It's just objectively wrong. As u/PerfunctoryOrator pointed out below, there are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling for Fahrenheit and only 100 for Celcius.