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Backgammon players should all use Fahrenheit: I learned something

Posted By: Rod
Date: Friday, 6 December 2013, at 6:28 p.m.

In Response To: Ranting. Metric System. (vidis13)

First, the only "real" reason to use Fahrenheit - Fahrenheit is evidently a better system to use when dealing with brine, which freezes at 0 Fahrenheit, the reason it was eventually created by a guy named Romer. Fahrenheit adjusted Romer's system to dispense with fractions.

Now, the reason backgammon players should use Fahrenheit:

From Wikipedia:

"he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval six times (since 64 is 2 to the sixth power)."

And in a chou if you get cubes in one game at 64, 64, 64 and 16, you know people are steaming.

Take that Celsius!

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