What a mystery this is

Just cause you don’t understand doesn’t make it a non-sequitur

It’s not a non sequitur. You’d know that if you ever read a book.

Not really knowledgeable bout history either, are you?

Because base 60 was too useful for a bunch of French fuckwits couple hundred years ago

I’m not American, did some research, ordered it off Amazon.

Because you people have ten fingers and use them to count.

It absolutely matters, it’s why I paid so much. Walmart was selling a 50 dollar machine did the same thing, but the machines broke inside of 2 weeks. It made such good coffee I just returned it over and over till the customer service lady told me (she knew my name at this point) they’d returned what was left of the pallet. 300 dollar Zojirusha does the same thing and its a few years old now. Tried a few machines in between, just made mud it felt like, I’ve been ruined for crappy coffee tolerance.

I understand you have a fetish for numbers that are multiples of ten, but that doesn’t make them special. Picking a number out of a hat is as likely to be a 9 as a 100.

I don’t think you have a very clear grasp on what random means, and 212 wasn’t assigned.

This isn’t kilometers, area, volume, distant measurement. It’s temperature. What that 100 is based on is random as fuck, and having the temperature of one elements boiling point at sea level divisible by 10 doesn’t really help anything. There is a 100 degree point in Farenhenheit too, you could simply use that for…well whatever reason you need ten to go in evenly.

Assigning the number 100 to the temperature pure water boils at sea level under specific conditions is as random as it gets. At least Farenheit numbers were based on a chemical concoction that exhibits the same temperature output regardless of elevation or pressure that they used to calibrate.

people actually use boiling water to calibrate their meat thermometers, but they always forget to check their elevation. boiling point here is 205 degrees, and 7 degrees matters when say chicken is safe at 160 but you actually pulled it off at 155

100 is absolutely a random number, just fetishized.

i literally set my thermostat at 69 because its t shirt warm.

huh. I use an expensive coffee maker precisely because it heats just shy of boiling, 202 degrees/like 94c, and it turns out way better coffee than the 85 ish degree machines.

212 and 100 are both equally random numbers. There’s nothing special about either. Besides, water boils about 205/95 on my hill.