Comment Re:Fahrenheit: It's for telling temperature (Score 2, Interesting) 1233
"Fahrenheit also has more descriptive power due to smaller degrees"
Maybe so, but can you tell the difference between 72 F and 74 F? I highly doubt it, and that is a larger difference than one degree Celsius. Anything that needs more precision than that can use decimals.
100 F being "pretty hot" and 0 F being "pretty cold" doesn't really help anyone too much, whereas 100 C being, "don't go outside because you'll boil to death", or 0 C being "it could snow at this temperature", seems like a much better arrangement.
No one should ever need to use Fahrenheit, or god forbid, Rankin, which is even worse, and I am of the opinion that Fahrenheit and Rankin should not exist, and therefore no one will need to use them interchangeably. Same goes for the imperial measurement system. It also does not allow "more descriptive power", since it can only be subdivided by multiples of 8, or 12, or whatever you felt like at the time before it just gets ridiculous.
Maybe so, but can you tell the difference between 72 F and 74 F? I highly doubt it, and that is a larger difference than one degree Celsius. Anything that needs more precision than that can use decimals.
100 F being "pretty hot" and 0 F being "pretty cold" doesn't really help anyone too much, whereas 100 C being, "don't go outside because you'll boil to death", or 0 C being "it could snow at this temperature", seems like a much better arrangement.
No one should ever need to use Fahrenheit, or god forbid, Rankin, which is even worse, and I am of the opinion that Fahrenheit and Rankin should not exist, and therefore no one will need to use them interchangeably. Same goes for the imperial measurement system. It also does not allow "more descriptive power", since it can only be subdivided by multiples of 8, or 12, or whatever you felt like at the time before it just gets ridiculous.