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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Guess there's not much need. Most of the prefixes used are 1000 (kilo, mega, etc.) or 1/1000 (milli, micro, etc). The tens and hundreds are a bit odd to use and imo shouldn't be used. So there's no need to use prefixes until you're into Star temperatures or really extreme experiments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Centicelsius has a nice ring to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

370 Centigree

That's ® worthy, fam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Too close to centigrade, plus centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's nothing special about 3.7°C, but there nothing NOT special about it either. <.<

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

But that doesn't have a nice ring to it so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nah you need two good grades to get a degree

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Centicentigrade

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What do you mean? The high today was 1.3 decicelcius where I’m at

Edit: decacelcius

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I know that one! That' a name of a 2D shape

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Where I think they could be used is for in between temps. 1 degree centigrade covers a wide range when it comes to precision cooking like sous vide. Would be nice to drop to a smaller unit, but since metric can only work in multiples of ten, going down a level becomes overly precise.

The result is that I tend to prefer Farenheit for cooking, especially for sous vide. Unless you're doing molecular gastronomy shit, converting between units isn't that useful; you don't need to worry about how many Jules it's going to take to boil a given volume of water.

Conversely, grams are way nicer for measuring most things in the kitchen.