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by pbmonster 743 days ago
Shitty life-hacks: you can ballpark converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit by multiplying by 2!
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This life-hack is significantly improved if you change it to:

C->F: multiply by 2, then add 30

F->C: subtract 30, then divide by 2.

At room temperatures, the +32 is significant, at cooking temperatures, who's oven is even accurate to 16/32 degrees? It depends on if knowing the "right" answer is more important than knowing an answer that will get you to what you want e.g., tasty muffins rather than charcoal briquettes :)
Ill say. If I follow GPs life-hack for 30C I get 60F, which is significantly different from 86F. Some life-hack.
30*2 + 30 = 90, which is pretty close to 86.

Going the other way

86-30 / 2 = 28 which is close to 30.

I was referring to the comment above that one.
That's why they called it a "shitty" life hack.
This is the correct life hack. is approximate enough to give you an idea. and easy enough to do mentally