Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo View Post
I wonder why Americans persists in using Farenheit when everybody else uses Celsius. It feels like the USA is an island in the middle of the world...
Well, that's the way we were taught. There was a move about 20-30 years ago to get on the metric bandwagon in the U.S. You know what happened? It was about as popular as peeing in a punchbowl.

You may get more responses from non-metric folks if you posted a conversion table.