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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (52 children)

Americans always regurgite the "Fahrenheit is how people feel" nonsense, but it is just that: nonsense. Americans are familiar with fahrenheit so they think that it is more inituitive than other systems, but unsurprisingly people who are used to celsius have no problems using it to measure "how people feel" and will think it is a very inituitive system.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But that also doesn't matter because the granularity is meaningless if you don't make decisions for differences between 71F and 70F

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not at those exact temperatures, but one degree matters in in grilling meat, making mash for beer, making candy, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but you should be using Celsius for those things. That's the main argument here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

You win best username. I’m assuming you’re a Linux nerd as well. <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Where in the chicken I jam the thermometer makes several degrees difference. If you truly require that level of granularity whilst grilling, I'd wager reading a decimal figure isn't the end of the world. Us normies can continue to bring chicken to 74 and call it a day

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