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bananamogultoday at 1:47 AM1 replyview on HN

Actually, 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect. It's a human-calibrated scale.

Though why 32F instead of 0F for frozen water...I have no idea.


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chrismorgantoday at 2:20 AM

> 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect

Citation needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit suggests no such thing, nor have I ever heard the notion.