Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
"I am unfamiliar with alternatives" is not quite the same thing as "this one is objectively preferable".
Should the U.S adopt the Metric system completely and why?
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You know, I don't really think that degrees Celsius is vastly superior to Fahrenheit, just somewhat better. Sure it makes more sense to fix 0 as the freezing point of water and 100 as the boiling point, but 32 and 212 isn't that much worse, just a different arbitrary choice. You don't talk about orders of magnitude with temperature in ordinary use, so it doesn't have the advantages that, say, meters or grams have (you need to talk about millimeters, milligrams, kilograms, and kilometers all the time).
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Yeah but from now on whenever somebody asks me the temperature, and I respond in Celsius, and they tell me that they only understand Farenheit, I'm going to be forced to respond: "Oh, it's 72 armpits out"
look, 0 to 100 on fahrenheit scale is about the usual temperature range for my area.
If it's below 0 then it's not fit for humans to be outside
If it's above 100 then it's not fit for humans to be outside.
It makes sense!
Celsius, I'm only going to be using a small fraction of the 0-100 scale, so why bother? Also, using celsius is just being vaguer when I could be more specific (less values for temp = vaguer)
If it's below 0 then it's not fit for humans to be outside
If it's above 100 then it's not fit for humans to be outside.
It makes sense!
Celsius, I'm only going to be using a small fraction of the 0-100 scale, so why bother? Also, using celsius is just being vaguer when I could be more specific (less values for temp = vaguer)
Yeah, that's what I like about Fahrenheit too - 0 means it's about as cold as you're likely to see outside, 100 is about the highest temperature we see, and anything outside the 0-100 range generally means that crazy weather is happening (barring subarctic/arctic areas and hot deserts).
ZeletDude
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I agree, I personally "get" Fahrenheit much more.. 1-100 does not work for me, and as you said, its less vague in F than in C which is why I like it..
You "get" fahrenheit more because you grew up using it. It's a familiarity bias, nothing more. It's also one of the most ingrained. I have truly made an effort to think in C, and I can do conversions really quickly from one scale to the other, but my "intuitive" feel for C is in 5-degree margins of error.
ZeletDude
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I can know the conversion too, but still I personally like Fahrenheit better, (yeah probably because I grew up with it..)
Akka
Moody old mage.
Because if you don't use the 0-100 it makes things go awry ?
Not to add that people have very different treshold of tolerance for temperature.
And your reasoning work with just about any arbitrary scale :
Hey, look, with Celsius :
If it's below 0, it means it's too cold outside to be comfortable.
If it's above 40, it means it's too hot outside to be comfortable.
IT MAKES SENSE !
I don't see why using a 0-40 range is worse than 0-100. It's not like if we could really feel the 1 degree difference.
And being "vaguer" is just ridiculous. Again, it's not like you could tell the difference. Feeling temperature is probably one of the most vaguer thing. I could even tell it makes more sense to have a vaguer scale
As such, there isn't really any difference between the value of two arbitrary scales (the only thing is, the 0 and 100 degree points are much more logical with Celsius, as they are using water and natural states as a reference, which makes lots more sense than using a weird chemical composition and the armpit of a particular human...), but the real value is the whole system - that's why metric was invented, not because using 1/40 000 of the perimeter of the Earth is fundamentally better, but simply because using a system where everything connect in simple ways (10 by 10) and where the reference is universal, is much better.
Metric system uses °C for everything, so it's just already included in the system. That's the only real advantage, but then this advantage is the very reason we have a common system to begin with, so...
Tommy Vercetti
The Don
Hell no! Keep it the way it is, the rest of the world should go back to the Imperial System.
Lillefix
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We can't really go back to the imperial system if we never used it. There were some similarities between the measurement systems of different countries, but they were far from the same. Not even the US and British system was/is the same.
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Cheetah
Deity
Speak for yourself.
It would be quite interesting if we went back to the old system.
I'm trying to get a job in Japan at the moment, and hope to get a job that pays about 100 000 speciedaler (20 000 ort if you don't know speciedaler) a year. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many kanmon that would be, even though I know 1 kanmon is 100 hiki.
And I would like a nice apartment to live in. But finding a place to live in Tokyo is expensive, so I'll settle for maybe 8 tsubo. Knowing the stereotypical Japanese apartments, I will probably get on that is 1 lås long though. Or I could go out of Tokyo, but I wouldn't want to go much more away than 1/2 kaffekok. Thinking about it, it would be nice if I found an apartment where the roof was 1 stang high, but I think it's safer to expect it to be closer to 1 favn. Well, 1 favn is close to 1 hiro (each hiro is close to 1/2 alen, or 1 fot (not to be confused with an English foot, though they are similar), which again is close to 1 shaku), so if I find a place with roof 7 shaku high I should be happy.
Oh, and note that 1 shaku in length is different from 1 shaku in volume. The previous paragraph was about the length one. 1 shaku in volume is closer to 0.00104 skjeppe, just to make that clear.
Oh, and did you know that 1 big hundred is 1 snes more than a normal hundred?
It would be quite interesting if we went back to the old system.
I'm trying to get a job in Japan at the moment, and hope to get a job that pays about 100 000 speciedaler (20 000 ort if you don't know speciedaler) a year. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many kanmon that would be, even though I know 1 kanmon is 100 hiki.
And I would like a nice apartment to live in. But finding a place to live in Tokyo is expensive, so I'll settle for maybe 8 tsubo. Knowing the stereotypical Japanese apartments, I will probably get on that is 1 lås long though. Or I could go out of Tokyo, but I wouldn't want to go much more away than 1/2 kaffekok. Thinking about it, it would be nice if I found an apartment where the roof was 1 stang high, but I think it's safer to expect it to be closer to 1 favn. Well, 1 favn is close to 1 hiro (each hiro is close to 1/2 alen, or 1 fot (not to be confused with an English foot, though they are similar), which again is close to 1 shaku), so if I find a place with roof 7 shaku high I should be happy.
Oh, and note that 1 shaku in length is different from 1 shaku in volume. The previous paragraph was about the length one. 1 shaku in volume is closer to 0.00104 skjeppe, just to make that clear.
Oh, and did you know that 1 big hundred is 1 snes more than a normal hundred?
Really
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Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
Weird. We use a ruler.
Airstrike92
King
Why would we use the metric system? The American system is better.
Leifmk
Deity
You cannot tell the difference between, say, 62 and 63 degrees Fahrenheit without using a thermometer.
