Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by raldi on Sunday August 10, 2014 @08:35AM
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Could you explain what you mean? I think my comment does a pretty good job of demonstrating that the scalig is nicely suited to the temperatures a human being experiences over the course of each year.
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Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by xxs on Sunday August 10, 2014 @12:41PM
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The main problem comes with negative Celsius temperature (basically 32F) as freezing point is quite important traffic wise. Driving on ice/snow is quite a change and basically occurs around 33F-32F, in Celsius it that's zero, much easier to remember.
Then you have 100F which is supposed to be the normal body temperature, but actually it means having fever.
There is only one case you might wish to use a tenth of Celsius in every day life and that's reporting body temperature around 37C-39C.
Like I've said, scaling is weird, it doesn't make much sense when firstly introduced. I have a friend who graduated MIT (PhD in aerospace engineering), living in the US for over 10 years and he is comfortable doing calculations and every day estimations in imperial units, except for temperature.
Re:Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in Ame...
by stephen_g on Sunday August 10, 2014 @11:39AM
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If you had to use decimals in Celsius for everyday measurements then you might have a point, but since you generally don't it really doesn't make a difference.
There's easily enough precision in the Celsius scale for everyday measurements, so it all comes down to what you're used to.