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Phoenix breaks heat record as city hits 110F for the 54th consecutive day
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It makes sense if you think about it as a thermometer manufacturer. Dividing things in half with lines is easy to do, so the gap between freezing and quite hot is an exact power of 2. (32 -> 96). as is the gap between 0 and freezing
Actually, Fahrenheit uses a 180 degree gap between water boiling (32) and freezing (212).
Anyone familiar with geometry knows that 180 degrees is much easier to divide than 100 degrees. That's why we rarely measure angles in gradians.
Yes because dividing the scale equally, is the biggest challenge of making a thermometer. Who came up with that lame argument?
Oh I forgot, maybe using freedom units it is. 🤣🤣🤣
You do understand that it was invented by a German/Polish physicist right? Like it's stupidly designed but they came out at the same time roughly 300 years ago and anglo countries all loved fahrenheit until literally the 1960s when sentiment changed and we are pushing towards Celsius. It hasn't been that long and it takes a lot of effort to change everything to a new system.
Ask a Canadian to set their oven or ask any older UK citizen the temp and you have a good (for the ovens 100%) chance of getting those dumb "freedom units"
Have gates open for people getting better and working towards stuff. We all start somewhere and being a cunt about things doesn't inspire change.
I'm just pointing it out, in a way I hope people get. Metric is way superior and allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.
Freedom units are not even consistent within one system, weights are all over the place, with ounces pounds stones, length is just as bad, with inches, feet and miles. There is not even some kind of internal consistency.
What I guess I wish for a start, is that articles stop using Imperial exclusively. Then over time transition away from Imperial will be easier.
I'm sorry if some people choose to be offended, there is no way any individual person is responsible for this, so it is quite illogical to be offended about it.
Celsius and Fahrenheit have nearly identical definitions.
In Fahrenheit, 0 is the temp of a mixture of ice and a particular brine. In Celsius, it's the temp of a mixture of ice and water.
In Fahrenheit, there's 180 degrees between boiling and freezing. In Celsius, it's 100.
It's not like distance, where mile comes from the Latin "mille passus", "thousand paces". Originally, Roman legions would place mile markers on roads by literally counting out their steps and placing them appropriately.
Meanwhile, a kilometer is a thousand meters, where a meter was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle.
Mile and kilometer are defined based on competely different things - a human step vs the circumference of the earth.
All that may be true, but doesn't account for the way metric allows for easy calculations between energy, weight, distance and temperature.
Freedom units are not even consistent within one system, weights are all over the place, with ounces pounds stones, length is just as bad, with inches, feet and miles. Where none of it makes any sense.
Metric is quite simply a way superior system to freedom units, that work as well as if it was made completely random. No actually it's probably worth, because NOTHING works in freedom units, if they were random, there might actually have been a case or two where they did by accident.
How often do you do conversions like that.
Once in a while, probably because it's easy, I think if I was using imperial I wouldn't because it's impossible without tools.
Edit:
No now that I think about it, I do it all the time in the kitchen, where volume to weight is extremely common when I cook, because often things are measured in volume, but I prefer to use the weight.
½ a liter water or milk or almost any fluid without extra dish-washing? Easy you just put it on the weight, select tara, and pour 500 grams. Voila you just saved both kitchen space and extra work. because 1g = 1ml with water and most fluids.
I guess if you are used to Freedom units, this may sound like science fiction, but this has been reality in many countries for a long time already.
I laughed..
Thank you. Not everybody can see the joke. Most science fiction use metric, even though it is American made, and I'm a huge fan of Science Fiction. 😀