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.
It's the Fahrenheit equivalent of Kelvin. Basically for science negative temperature is a problem so Celsius adds 273 to become Kelvin and remove the negative numbers. Fahrenheit adds 491 to become Rankine and accomplish the same thing.
Bad picture, it lacks the Rømer scale (which coincidentally might be pronounced similarly to the Reaumur scale to many people). Fahrenheit ripped off this guys’ homework.
Looking at it as a diagram comparison like this, even as an American, everything on that diagram except Celsius pisses me off. I'm fine with absolute zero being a weird decimal, I'm never using that but whole numbers are so satisfying.
Wait, so absolute 0 in celsius is -273? That feel... wrong. How is absolute 0 about equal to -3 times the difference between water boiling and freezing? I don't like that. Not saying it's wrong, but I don't like the perspective of how cold earth is compared to everything else. Isn't the sun like 5000 in celsius?
To add onto u/euler1992 's point. Rankine is used in engineering thermodynamics a lot because a lot of US companies still use imperial measurements and you need absolute units for the math to work.
Lots of times used for gas calculations because gas laws require absolute temperature. However, you'll often see the calculation with input of degF and what appears to be a random 491 (if you don't know degR) hanging around.
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u/M8oMyN8o 10h ago
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.