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 Re: Explanation of English Measurement
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As late as 1900, the US navy included 3 standard barley corns (from the middle of the ear, of course) with every munitions order.
Metric temperature is pretty well meaningless because it is based on the freezing and boiling points of water. Where I live, 100C is about 208F.
If you are up at the 2000 ft above sea level where water will boil at 208F then it will boil at 97.75C
Fahrenheit ranges from 0 to 100 as does centigrade based on the original scale by the physicist Daniel Fahrenheit.
I guess that means you are using a 100 point (decimal) system as well. 
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