It's been a while since we last had a good, completely pointless metric vs imperial thread
>>59802601
but Fahrenheit is a better scale when it comes to discerning how hot or cold it is outside
>>59802830
I don't know, I appreciate all that "in the forties" system, but for me Celsius is better since we focus a lot on water, from tea and coffee being 80 - 100oC to near freezing outside at 0oC...
>>59803035
Celsius is the superior system for cooking, don't get me wrong.
But with Fahrenheit, it is easier to tell at a glance what it is like outside, because Fahrenheit is a lot more specific in that temperature range than Celsius is.
>>59802830
Celsius make way more sense, at least you know when it's freezing.
>>59802601
Football fields (AMERICAN YOU YUROPOORS) is clearly the superior area scale that puny """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""square"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""meter"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>>59803231
Give me some examples, please.
Today temperature in Poland reached 30oC, we consider that the point above which we have a heatwave. 21oC is room temperature, 25oC is hot, above 30oC ia unbearable.
16oC is when you can't work in rooms as its too cold, 10oc to 2oC is nasty. 0oC - water freezes! -5oC for perfect winter, -15oC is when foreigners die, -20oC and lowe is when we die, -45oC is when Russian spies start wearing jackets
>>59803035
... unless you reach water's triple point, where it can freeze and evaporate, among other things, all at the same temperature.
It probably wasn't wise to make a system based around water's boiling and freezing points when water boils and freezes at different temperatures depending on pressure.
>>59803035
... unless you reach water's triple point, where it can freeze and melt at the same temperature.
It probably wasn't wise to make a system based around water's boiling and freezing points when water boils and freezes at different temperatures depending on pressure.
>>59802601
Our length and mass/weight units are defined in terms of metric these days anyway, so by definition they're downstream of the real measurements. (I looked up a few examples just to make sure).
I've known for years that an inch is (almost?) exactly 2.54 centimeters, but now I see why by definition, which definitions of course derive themselves from measurable, reproducible physical phenomena. Some weird old woman had to know inches-to-centimeters like RIGHT NOW at an old job (before smartphones were ubiquitous), so I just rattled it off for her.
Just remind burgers that our units "come from" SI units at the end of the day.
>>59802601
I can't remember the last time I used math
