Re:The Argument of Twelves and the Metric System
by StavrosK on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:56AM
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I don't understand why we want round numbers here. I know 40 C is "very hot" and for Americans that's 100 F. Using a rounder number makes absolutely no difference, since I'm never going to divide temperatures.
It doesn't even matter much for meters and kilometers, since I very rarely need to talk about things that are kilometers away and meters away in the same context. It's handy to have sane units for those, though, since there you can multiply and divide in your calculations.
Temperature arguments never seemed particularly compelling to me. They assume 100 is more convenient, which I find wrong, since you're usually talking about 102, 86, 95, etc anyway.
It doesn't even matter much for meters and kilometers, since I very rarely need to talk about things that are kilometers away and meters away in the same context. It's handy to have sane units for those, though, since there you can multiply and divide in your calculations.
Temperature arguments never seemed particularly compelling to me. They assume 100 is more convenient, which I find wrong, since you're usually talking about 102, 86, 95, etc anyway.