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An American using the inferior Fahrenheit system and a European using the superior Celsius system which is way easier
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (10 children)

A brit once told me that the imperial system makes sense if you look at it from the perspective of a peasant at the market - units of 12 was a lot easier to work with in the olden days because it's easily divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6.

I guess it makes sense from a historical viewpoint.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Its basically entirely this, its not for no reason much of the world wound up using something akin to it. Honestly for small scale stuff such as cooking I do genuinely quite like using it but especially in the digital age its simply become obsolete I can't imagine having to code something which requires employing imperial measurements.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I just wish it was always 12 instead of 3, 12, 1760 and whatever the eff they come up with.

    Farenheit on the other hand does not make sense at all

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Fahrenheit makes more sense as a unit in use. 100 equals hot, but doesn't equal death, 0 equals cold. In a lot of the world freezing is only kind of cold, not actually cold. Metric makes sense for science while imperial is more of a common persons unit; that's also why Americans in science use metric.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Best way to use Fahrenheit is to consider it as a percentage of how hot it is. 0 degrees is zero percent hot, and 100 is fully hot. Beyond that you’re in super cold/hot territory.

    But yeah, Celsius is still better.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It makes a lot more sense if you know about chains. A chain is 22 yards, and there are 80 chains in a mile. There are also rods (a quarter of a chain) and furlongs (10 chains)

    So: 3 Barleycorn in an inch 4 inches in a hand 3 hands in a foot 3 feet in a yard 5.5 yards in a rod 4 rods in a chain 10 chains in a furlong 8 furlongs in a mile

    ... And of course there's the overlapping systems of length for manufacturing, agriculture, maritime, and horse racing, which have their own, separate subdivisions and largest units, but usually you can get away with just the nail, the fathom, the nautical mile, and the span.

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