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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by SeanLuke on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:39PM (#32732539)
> The first is that the Fahrenheit scale wasn't built around a range of human feeling

How and why Fahrenheit was developed is completely immaterial: what is material is whether and how its range is of value to its users now.

> Every time I need to think in Fahrenheit (which tends to only be online debates about this very topic), I can't picture anything clearly even with the purported 0 to 100 concept.

Your argument is "because I'm not used to Fahrenheit, it must not offer an advantage to people used to it"? Really? C'mon.

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Re:Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size by EdwardDiego on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @05:34AM (#32748471)
> Your argument is "because I'm not used to Fahrenheit, it must not offer an advantage to people used to it"? Really?

But that's your argument for Fahrenheit...

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