Comment: Re:English system is fine (Score 1) 995
Agreed.
Moreover, the 180 degrees between freezing and boiling were selected to match a human's ability to differentiate temperature by touch --- if one can make two items 0.5 degrees Celsius apart, while they're the same temperature reading (disregarding the decimal), one will seem warmer than the other --- but things need to be a full degree different in Farenheit for the difference to be perceptible.