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In the United Kingdom[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom]], Celsius is the official scale used by the government and the media. It is also the only scale used in temperature controllers (for example, room thermostats). Some of the British media, however, still provide Fahrenheit equivalents since many in Britain, especially older people, still use the Fahrenheit scale. Even so, many that do still switch to the use of Celsius for low temperatures. |
In the United Kingdom[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom]], Celsius is the official scale used by the government and the media. It is also the only scale used in temperature controllers (for example, room thermostats). Some of the British media, however, still provide Fahrenheit equivalents since many in Britain, especially older people, still use the Fahrenheit scale. Even so, many that do still switch to the use of Celsius for low temperatures. |
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+ | Normal human body temperature is 36.8 °C ±0.7 °C, or 98.2 °F ±1.3 °F. The commonly given value 98.6 °F is simply the exact conversion of 37 °C, and therefore has excess (invalid) precision. |
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+ | Some numbers in this table have been rounded off. |
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==References== |
==References== |