no I go og celcious, boiling water at -100
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Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months agoI expect you also think Fahrenheit is more intuitive
joel_feila@lemmy.world 8 months ago
EatATaco@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m 100% on board with the us moving to metric, and in almost all cases I think it’s far easier to use.
But fahrenheit is more intuitive: 100 too hot to work outside, 0 too cold to work outside. It’s just garbage for scientific use. I couldn’t care less if we switched to Celsius, but it’s problem is certainly not intuitiveness.
I would say intuitiveness is more for all of the other measurements. Like 5280 feet in a mile? WTF is that BS.
dan@upvote.au 8 months ago
Fahrenheit isn’t too bad IMO. It’s more granular so it’s usually sufficient to use whole numbers for everything. 0F to 100F is a temperature range a person might be subjected to in day-to-day life, with 0F being pretty cold and 100F being pretty hot.
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I never undertand the more granular, the scale is in 180 because that’s the most precision they could use to manufacture scientific thermometers, nowadays it’s completely irrelevant. Celsius thermometers have a granularity of 0.1°C and that is useful soley when you want to differentiate between “almost a slight fever” and “maybe a slight fever”. Do you find yourself needing to differentiate between 45 °F and 46 °F?
ExFed@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Harsh words. After all, Rankine is best.