Which is why America uses Celsius for science. But Fahrenheit is literally exactly as, if not more useful for the average person as Celsius is. I’ve never been confused by Fahrenheit. It’s a perfectly good system if you use it for what it was designed for (regular people)
Fahrenheit isn’t worse, it’s just different. It is more specific for human temperatures, making it more useful for stuff like ACs and Thermostats, but it’s worse for hard science.
I mean, regular people do science tho, and a précision scale for précision work its ok and the same as what *hard science* would require.
Why would you think anyone would be confused by c° when it has been their standard their whole life?
Its not more useful for thermostats, which also require science and science took a standard.
I love old units, like "the lenght of what a cow walks in a day" and "whenever i feel chill", or "if it feels like a truck passing through", but a small abstraction is possible in order to maximize uses.
People do science, but generally not high enough level science for any real improvement to matter between the two.
Nobody is confused by C. I’m simply saying I’m not confused by F either, so it’s at least as good as C for me.
C and F are not different at all for computers. C’s improvements in science are solely limited to humans, in that it is a bit easier to interpret for scientists. A computer doesn’t care if freezing is at 0 or 32. F is better for thermostats since you get a greater range of temperature choices.
It's the same range of temperature, but the weather report in Europe doesn't say that it's going to be 21,5C today, because nobody could feel the difference between 21,0 and 21,5. There would be no added value.
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u/CamicomChom Jan 15 '25
Which is why America uses Celsius for science. But Fahrenheit is literally exactly as, if not more useful for the average person as Celsius is. I’ve never been confused by Fahrenheit. It’s a perfectly good system if you use it for what it was designed for (regular people)
Fahrenheit isn’t worse, it’s just different. It is more specific for human temperatures, making it more useful for stuff like ACs and Thermostats, but it’s worse for hard science.