Not using metric is so much more fun:

• water freezes at 32, boils at 212
• 16 cups in 1 gallon (both standard units of measurement)
• 1 (US) cup of water is 8 (US) oz
• 1 (US) cup of water is 14.4375in^3

Makes your maths so much more exciting!!

This is a great scale. Let’s solve all the arguments about temperature and instead just create a “pleasantness scale”. Could probably even market this and sell a “personalised pleasantness scale” and you pass it out to your friends when you meet them.

I mean, the temperature 0 was assigned because it was the lowest temperature that winter in Fahrenheit’s town, and the “powers of two” was only chosen because it was simple to mark degree lines on his instrument. Feels quite arbitrary to me…