• FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    Just look for the number 32 instead of 0.

    Now you are almost arguing against yourself, I can use the same argument about body temperature, just look for 37 instead of 100

    However they are different systems and they do have pros and cons.

    And this is a pro for me where I live.

    I never said otherwise and I totally agree.

    Fahrenheit is more suitable for daily life

    These don’t square.
    Celsius and farenheit is just as suitable for daily life. You learn your important reference points and go from there.

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      9 months ago

      Generally -40 to 40 are the extremes of livable areas.

      Sure, water is a really good system and it works well.

      And for F that range is -40 to 104. See how you get 64 extra degrees of precision and nearly all of them are double digit numbers? No downside.

      Furthermore F can use its base 10 system to describe useful ranges of temperature such as the 20s, 60s, etc. So you have 144 degrees instead of just 80, and you also have the option to utilize a more broad 16 degree scale that’s also built in.

      You might say that Celsius technically also has an 8 degree scale(10s, 30s), but I would argue that the range of 10 degrees Celsius is too broad to be useful in the same way. In order to scale such that 0C is water freezing and 100C boiling, it was necessary for the units to become larger and thus the 10C shorthand is much less descriptive than the 10F shorthand, at least for most human purposes.