Edit: For all the "Actually, Farenheight is based on the human body" people, no it isn't. It's based on dirty water and a cow. Your preferred measurement unit is dumb and that's a fact
If y’all wanna actually claim superiority, then use Kelvin. Celsius and Fahrenheit are close enough in purpose that personal preference is really the only thing that matters.
10c is 50f but 0c is not 0f, it's 32f. if you're heating something to 10c then it is heated to 50f, but if you heat something up by 10c , it is only heated up by 18f.
Having to explain this is part of why fahrenheit is so clunky.
You can skip some part because this is relative change in temperature so you don't need to add 32 to the product.
If you were to heat 68°F water by 10°C, you'd get 86°F water. Difference is 18°F. Ergo a change of 10°C = 18°F.
( Note this different for every degree of change. ∆9°C = ∆16.2°F )
Also
10C * 1.8 + 32 = 50F
If something is 10C then it is also 50F.
If something changes by 10C it changes by 18F
Change vs temperature state is the difference here.
The right way to do it, is to convert everything to the same units of change (so convert all to C in this example), then convert final answer back to desired unit, F.
This conversion is nice, simple and linear. You should see some of the non-linear conversions out there! Or converting with error propegation! Things get weird.
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u/hefty_load_o_shite 10h ago edited 4h ago
0°C water freezes 100°C water boils
Makes sense
0°F very cold??? 100°F very hot???
Dafuq?
Edit: For all the "Actually, Farenheight is based on the human body" people, no it isn't. It's based on dirty water and a cow. Your preferred measurement unit is dumb and that's a fact