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Anyone in a country that uses the celsius scale knows that the temperature argument is rubbish... It's totally and completely what you're used to. I doubt peopl
by stephen_g 14y ago
Anyone in a country that uses the celsius scale knows that the temperature argument is rubbish... It's totally and completely what you're used to. I doubt people really think of temperature in more than about eight or ten increments anyway (bloody freezing, cold, pleasant, etc.) so having a range of forty or fifty integers really gives you more than enough precision.
I suppose it doesn't really matter what people use to express the temperature in common use, but having a unified scale across ambient temperature, cooking, science (1K = 1°C), manufacturing, etc. that people in almost every other country uses really does make sense, especially when the conversion is so annoying.
- fennecfoxen 14y agoMy point is more "why should people have to change what they're used to for a small subset of the scientific class?" - of all the things that people do math with, and would benefit from decimalization and metrifying, temperature is pretty much the last.