• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    What is your point? That people who use Celsius can’t feel the difference between 21.7°C and 22.8°C?

    If you’re worried about your thermometer, you’ll be happy to hear that metric ones usually have finer precision than Fahrenheit ones, since they go in .5°C steps. Since +1°F means +5/9°C, you have less precision!

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      The point was they need that extra decimal because C isn’t good for human temperature sense.

      It’s not like you are prohibited from using decimals in Fahrenheit. It’s that you don’t need 3 digits because it works better for people.

      And fuck you for making me defend the most ass backwards measurement system on the planet.

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        It’s just an incredibly weak defense. Why is it worse for C to use an extra decimal for these differences? I can just as well argue that C is a more accurate representation, because small differences in temperature are smaller. Just like your argument, this is purely an opinion - until you can show me that not needing the extra decimal is objectively better, or until I can show you that smaller differences being represented as such is objectively better, neither of them holds any weight.

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          It’s the same reason we use abbreviations and contractions when speaking. A trivial simplification is still a simplification.

          Why bother with Celcius at all when there is Kelvin. Even Kelvin is arbitrary. Best to use Planck normalized temperature. The scale would be absolute 0 to 100 where 0 is absolute 0 and 100 is 10^32 Kelvin.

          So whenever you have to tell someone the temperature outside, you say it’s 0.000000000000000000000000015237 Planck

          If 3 digits isn’t more a tiny bit more cumbersome than 2, then 32 digits is fine too.

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            We don’t have issues with decimals in many places. For example, why are there pennies? Why aren’t dollars just scaled up 100? Generally speaking: why don’t people immediately shift to the lower unit when talking about e.g. 3.5 miles? If you’re correct, those should be simplified too - yet they aren’t.

            Why bother with Celcius at all when there is Kelvin.

            Because Celsius uses a scale that relies on temperatures you’re encountering in your everyday life.

            Even Kelvin is arbitrary. Best to use Plank normalized temperature. The scale would be absolute 0 to 100 where 0 is absolute 0 and 100 is 10^32 Kelvin.

            Why? That scale is still arbitrarily chosen.