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What the fuck is a Fahrenheit?
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Fahrenheit is a scale of temperature that Americans don't use for aviation.
My favorite example of mixed units is the standard adiabatic lapse rate, given as 2 degrees C per 1000 feet.
Isn't a foot defined as 0.3048 meters anyways?
So its really a metric derivative
It starts with metric, so really it's just the next evolution of metric
Its mors like metric came and colonized it
Keep in mind, the reason it is like this is because its cheaper to base off metric than to define the standard by your self