Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading.
About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10.
They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for
chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc.
They stopped when people starting getting killed. There was no gain in this
attempted switch over and a lot of pain, as it turned out.
Which unit is more convenient for measuring air temperature, Fahrenheit or
Centigrade?
Centigrade is based on the freezing and boiling points of water. Dr.
Fahrenheit, on the other hand, traveled all over Europe and, using his
device, set 100 to the hottest temperature normally expected and set 0 to
the lowest temperature normally expected, ie, the Fahrenheit scale was
designed for a particular use, measuring air temperature.
Joel
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