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Philipps said:

20 °C = 68 °F
30 °C = 86 °F

21 Jul 2019 11:40 GMT (#1 of 8 comments)

Susam Pal said:

−40 °C = −40 °F.

A related joke:

Saul: It's −40 outside.

Paul: Fahrenheit or Celsius?

Saul: When it's that cold, it's impossible to tell the difference.

21 Jul 2019 11:46 GMT (#2 of 8 comments)

Eric said:

16 °C = 61 °F. Much more useful summer conversion temperature in Ireland.

21 Jul 2019 15:05 GMT (#3 of 8 comments)

michelpp said:

It doesn't help much for people visiting here in the US, but when I travel outside the country I use this handy rhyme: 30 is hot. 20 is nice. 10 is cold. 0 is ice.

21 Jul 2019 15:20 GMT (#4 of 8 comments)

u801e said:

The way I convert is to remember that 32 °F is 0 °C and then count by "nines" for Fahrenheit to get the desired temperature in Celsius.

32 °F = 0 °C
41 °F = 5 °C
50 °F = 10 °C
59 °F = 15 °C
68 °F = 20 °C
77 °F = 25 °C
86 °F = 30 °C
95 °F = 35 °C

It's also pretty easy to remember that 10 °C = 50 °F and 35 °C = 95 °F if you want to go forward or back from there with the same counting method.

21 Jul 2019 15:36 GMT (#5 of 8 comments)

Sherif said:

Thanks a lot for sharing this neat trick. I just moved to North America and I just suffer as much. Doubling and adding 30 is awesome.

I came to your blog from another post by someone about MathB.in, love it. Thanks for making it!

03 Jan 2020 07:49 GMT (#6 of 8 comments)

Geoff Bailey said:

An alternative approach to the accurate conversions, that may be easier to remember because it is more symmetric, is to first shift the temperatures so that the common value (-40) is the zero point, then scale, then shift back, that is, \begin{align*} f & = (c + 40) \cdot \frac{9}{5} - 40, \\ c & = (f + 40) \cdot \frac{5}{9} - 40. \end{align*} The formula "looks" the same for each direction, just with inverted scaling factors.

29 Feb 2020 12:05 GMT (#7 of 8 comments)

whoibrar said:

I really love the design of the site and the well written post.

31 Mar 2023 18:04 GMT (#8 of 8 comments)
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