Fahrenheit or Celsius... which do you use?

As a chemist, I would prefer if everyone just used Kelvin all the time, life would be easier since i'm used to it, and Celsius isn't much different, though you have to use minus numbers.

I'm 20 and too young to ever have been bothered with Farenheit.
 
Where I live it's forever -40 so it doesn't matter...

Celsius, although I will occasionally use Kelvin.

Although I am a bit like strumpus(...) when it comes to distance, depending on the length and whether I have a measuring instrument will depend on whether I use mm, cm, inches, feet, metres, km or miles. If something is tiny i'll use mm, but if it close to about 30cm or less than a metre I will think of it in feet. When i'm wondering without a map i'll use miles but with a map short distances will be in metres and longer ones converted to miles. It makes so much sense, and hopefully people younger than me (I am only 22) will still be doing this for a while yet.
 
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Greenlizard0 said:
Odd question, but aren't both bizarre and slightly wrong? I swear I read that somewhere..
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You're probably confusing Celsius with centigrade - they are basically the same centigrade was defined differently in that 0 was based upon the temperature of melting ice, which cannot be defined accurately, whereas celcius was based upon the triple-point temperature of water. In everyday terms they are the same scale, but they can differ by as much as 0.1 degree.

There's an explanation here:
http://www.sizes.com/units/temperature_centigrade.htm

If you're bored.
 
I grew up in America, surrounded by Fahrenheit.

However, I've only ever used Celsius, as it's far more logical.

0 for freezing, 100 for boiling. :cool:
 
Celsius everyday stuff, Kelvin for work.

eXor said:
I grew up in America, surrounded by Fahrenheit.

However, I've only ever used Celsius, as it's far more logical.

0 for freezing, 100 for boiling. :cool:
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-273 for absolute zero =\
 
strumpusplunket said:
Ok, I have a bizarre personal system.

For the weather: for low temperatures (say 10c or below) I use Celsius, but for high temperatures (above 70ishF) I use Fahrenheit. If it's hot and someone says it's 26C, I have to convert to Fahrenheit to make it fit my frame of reference. Vice-versa with low temperatures. I guess I ignore temperatures in between - or at least I don't talk or hear about them. I don't know. :)

I think this originated because when I was on holiday when I was young I always heard/talked about the temperature in Fahrenheit, so that's how my frame of reference got formed for hot temperatures, and it's stuck.

For cooking, PC component temps, and anything else, I use Celsius.
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My wife does this too...your both bloody wierd.
 
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