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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (4 children)

37.78 Celsius for those who don't know freedom units offhand (including me, I had to search the conversion).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your service my hero

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you're going to be snarky about units, at least get the significant digits correct. The infographic gives 100°F as the temperature. If I had to guess I'd say that wherever that number came from, it's precision is much less than a whole °F, but for simplicity let's just say that the precision is a whole number, no decimal places in the precision. At that precision 37.5°C and 38°C are both also 100°F. There are 9/5 °F for every °C after all. If you'd said 37.7°C I wouldn't have even commented. But that was one decimal place too far (and being too lazy to find the ° symbol or type out degrees).

You're all probably saying, "Who cares? Why do you care? Aren't you just being any even more annoying pedant?"

I do. I don't know. Probably.

But, if you're going to be a smartass, you better at least try to be smart about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Wasn't trying to be a smartass. It's just that it's 37.777 repeating, so 37.78 I think gets the point across. I'll include proper significant figures when it's necessary for actual scientific work.

Since you're trying to be more scientific about it, shouldn't it be represented in SI units in the first place.....?

Also, it's science memes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So just about human body temperature, pretty neat

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It’s actually based on emperor penguin huddle temperature, humans just happen to have the same temp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's actually Mr. Fahrenheit's wife's body temperature on one particular day. Luckily she happened to be human.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

luckily for who?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Higher actually, it would be a low grade fever In humans

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

for some people it'd be a pretty hefty fever, iirc my body temp is 36°C

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

0° Fahrenheit is human body temperature.

0° F is an ice and salt mix below freezing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Is... Is that second F a C?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's just going straight.