W Celsius
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We have even less than mm
through the power of the decimal separator!
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People who say 100°C is warm make my blood boil.
I had to look it up, TIL blood boils at the same temp as water
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Never got this. I saw one fucking dumb american actually defend the rrtarded system by saying "It's actually more precise" - what a fucking stupid thing to say, when you don't even have a smaller unit than freaking Inches. Atleast we have mm. You guys use 1\4 Inch. Wtf is that??
Fractions are pretty good for quick ratios, which is why it's popular in carpentry, but I'd never call it "more precise" than decimal numbers. Anything that needs tighter tolerances than 1/16" is probably going to use metric measurements.
I will say that for most people it doesn't impact their life either way. If the Imperial system (or the modern American system based on it) were truly inferior they would have been replaced but it's mostly an issue in laboratories and engineering.
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Please also lets use the International fixed calendar where every month has exactly 28 days/4 weeks and the year has 13 months.
Every 1st of the month is a sunday, every 2nd is a monday and so on, so you will always know which day it is by the number.The leftover day is a dedicated new years day.
Sounds fun, now update every computer system simultaneously to a new date format.
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100 warm
Yeah, I suppose that's one way to describe 100°C
On a cosmic scale 100C is practically freezing.
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Fractions are pretty good for quick ratios, which is why it's popular in carpentry, but I'd never call it "more precise" than decimal numbers. Anything that needs tighter tolerances than 1/16" is probably going to use metric measurements.
I will say that for most people it doesn't impact their life either way. If the Imperial system (or the modern American system based on it) were truly inferior they would have been replaced but it's mostly an issue in laboratories and engineering.
They’ll use 1/1000th of an inch, a “thou”. But at that point it’s basically metric but worse.
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But you don't switch in one go, so costs can be spread out over years. First you would do double labeling, roll that out slowly, and with time the customary units slowly fades out.
Sure, I get that, and we already have dual labeling on a lot of stuff, maybe even most of the stuff. The problem there is that nobody actually reads the other labeling, so they are also not learning.
They need to go back to what they were doing before: First decide that we're moving over so that mandates can be enforced.
Second, do what you were saying, and do dual labeling during the transition--but make metric most the prominent.
Third, educate kids in schools to use it (this already happens to a degree).
Fourth, launch massive informational campaigns to teach people how and why to use metric.
Fifth, step down the dual labeling gradually as more people are comfortable with the new units.
I expect there to be a long tail of non-metric units in use (see UK), but if we can switch more things over that is still an improvement. Heck, I'll even take them just decimalizing and removing some smaller units (like lbs/oz).
The history of metrication in the US is as frustrating as it is an interesting read. It can certainly be done and many countries have shown it can be done, but it takes commitment and support from the highest levels.
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How do you account for doubling precision? Decimal only records 10-fold steps.
In any context where it's important, you'd note it with +/-. Not really a problem.
I guess there's nothing wrong with saying 1/8th metre, 1/8th centimetre, 15/16th metre either. Just as some people might use 0.356 inches.
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The sauna you're in is 100°C? 212°F?
I think you might be dead bro."Dry" sauna rather than steam sauna. 100C at 100% humidity would very quickly be dangerous.
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C is even more intuitive than the graphic.
0 = water's frozen
100 = water's boiling*at sea level, assuming pure water
It's intuitive with respect to water. Applying it to anything else is exactly the same as the Fahrenheit scale: you associate various things with numbers.
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The Fahrenheit scale has only one point of reference for people and that is not 100.
Fahrenheit (the scientist) determined 0° at the coldest stable temperature he could achieve with a mixture of water, ice and ammonium chloride, then set the mean healthy body temperature (as it was known at that time, modern measuring equipment is more precise) at 96° and then as a third reference set 32° as the freezing point of water.
The reference points were later changed to 32° for water freezing and 180° higher at 212° for water boiling due to Anders Celsius work and influence.Everything about this looks just random and devoid of any logic. Celsius for his scale referenced the temperatures at which water changes state and Kelvin uses the Celsius scale but sets 0 at the point of literally no energy. Behind both is an idea easily to grasp.
looks just random and devoid of any logic.
You literally just described the non-random logic.
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They’ll use 1/1000th of an inch, a “thou”. But at that point it’s basically metric but worse.
I fully forgot about thousandths even though I see them all the time as "mils". Definitely metric but worse.
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On a day-to-day base it's really just about what you're being used to. Who cares about granularity in weather forecast? You get out of the shadow and it's too hot for a jacket.
Also, weather is not the only daily use of tenperature, look at cooking and baking where younhave much higher temperatures and always go beyond 100°F.In terms of distance and weight I feel that both systems offer equally arbitrary (to daily use) units. There's no fairly universal thing most everyone would experience in terms of either weight or distance that could be usefully measured on a similar 0-100 scale.
People working more industrial jobs are probably going to be more frequently dealing with things that weigh a significant amount than people working office types of jobs so no standard would satisfy both groups. The closest I can really think of is the weight of an average person, but that's variable based on region, has changed significantly over a short amount of time, and is very rarely ever a weight that most anyone would need to deal with, therefore wouldn't be very useful or relatable to most people.
Distances offer the same problem, since there's no singular distance that the majority of people are going to experience by which we could base a scale on.
That being said, I feel that weather is a fairly universal experience for everyone and a scale that fits all of the most frequently used values (for the weather) in the 0-100 range is quite nice.
I'm fully aware that the weather isn't the only use of temperature in a day to day context, however it's not often that I need to know how hot the inside of an oven feels. Therefore how far exactly it lies beyond the 0-100 very cold to very hot spectrum that Fahrenheit offers doesn't really matter.
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Never got this. I saw one fucking dumb american actually defend the rrtarded system by saying "It's actually more precise" - what a fucking stupid thing to say, when you don't even have a smaller unit than freaking Inches. Atleast we have mm. You guys use 1\4 Inch. Wtf is that??
The only argument they have is for temperature, because they're afraid of decimal points.
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If you think Imperial is a better system, you're the perfect example of the American education system at work.
In case those were too many words...
You stupid.
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Sounds fun, now update every computer system simultaneously to a new date format.
time is stored as seconds since epoch anyways, the computer systems can easily survive by just converting to metric time when displaying. It's the systems that cares about week/month that hates it
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100 warm
Yeah, I suppose that's one way to describe 100°C
"It's a bit warm today."
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We could have had it as early as 1793, but the ship carrying the metric standards was attacked by pirates.
Those patriots dumped the metric system into Boston harbor, take that brits
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We do use metric in America. All the time actually. It's taught in high school science classes. We use it in science, medicine, aerospace, military, and engineering.
And drug dealing
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Calling the boiling point of water simply "warm" is a bit sus.
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