Fahrenheit Gameplay Played on X360

Fahrenheit (symbol °F) is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), after whom the scale is named.[1] On Fahrenheit's original scale the lower defining point was the lowest temperature which he could reproducibly obtain using brine (defining zero degrees), while the highest was the best estimate of the average human body temperature (defining 100 degrees), and is thus a type of "centigrade" (100 point gradient) scale. There exist several stories on the exact original definition of his scale, however, and some of the specifics have been lost and exaggerated with time. The scale is nowadays defined by two fixed points: the temperature at which water freezes into ice is defined as 32 degrees, and the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 degrees, a 180 degree separation, as defined at sea level standard atmospheric pressure.

By the end of the 20th century, most countries used the Celsius scale rather than the Fahrenheit scale, though Canada retains it as a supplementary scale that can be used alongside Celsius.[2][3][4][5] Fahrenheit remains the official scale for the following countries: Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Belize,[6] the Bahamas, Palau, and the United States of America and associated territories (Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands). The Rankine temperature scale was based upon the Fahrenheit temperature scale, with its zero representing absolute zero instead.