Or probably the other way around, why do Celsius and Fahrenheit have “degrees” in its unit?
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The degree units are there. It’s just a different way of referring to them.
Fahrenheit – Scale was formed by setting zero as the lowest temperature he could achieve from a mixture of ice water and salt. 100 was normal human body temperature (which, as we know, he didn’t measure properly so we now end up with something weird like 98.6 as normal body temperature.)
Centigrade (Celsius) – Scale was formed by setting zero as the freezing point of fresh water at sea level, and 100 as the boiling point. The endpoints are phase change points that are fairly stable.
Rankine and Kelvin are temperature scales that use absolute zero as their zero point, and use Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature units, respectively. Kelvin is better known since it is related to the Celsius scale, which is now universally accepted as a standard in scientific circles.
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