• moneygrowsontrees@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I like to refer to them as Freedom units and Communist units (in jest, obviously). I will say, though, that Fahrenheit feels like a more precise scale for measuring temperature even if the units are goofy.

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      2 years ago

      What additional arguments besides personal experience would you give to back this precision claim?

      Temperature scales are arbitrary by nature, and the criteria behind their definition can be useful or not. Fahrenheit’s isn’t that much useful compared to Celsius’ or Kelvin’s.

    • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I don’t get the precision argument. It really doesn’t matter for personal use because you wouldn’t feel the difference anyways and if you really needed it to be as precise as possible (for… I don’t know, science) you’d use decimals. And if you’re sciencing, you’d use the system that allows easy conversion, which is metric.

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 years ago

        I’m scared to ask now if Fahrenheit has decimals or if it’s like 74 and one eighth degrees.