• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Thoughts?

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    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.

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      9 months ago

      copy pasting now are we? here was my response to the same copied comment:

      but I would argue that the range of 10 degrees Celsius is too broad to be useful in the same way.

      As you might imagine I completely disagree.

      For my purposes 20’s, 30’s, negative 10’s and so on is perfectly good, and I would describe my purposes as human.

      Again, this is based on your, and my, learned reference points. Of course you feel the scale of the farenheit is better suited for describing your life, those are your learned reference points.

      I have my own learned reference points based on the Celsius scale I grew up with and, suprise suprise, to me they’re superior.

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        9 months ago

        copy pasting now are we?

        You replied to me on multiple different threads, so I didn’t realize you were the same person. Generally if you’re serious about a debate, it’s best to keep things to one comment chain. Otherwise you’re just kinda yelling at somebody.