there's more precision in fahreinheit, why do others keep using celsius?

[Deeko]

Making calculations involving different units is easier.

His point was throughout your daily life, you don't need to make calculations. This is why engineers and scientists use it, and the rest of us have no need.

 

[nerp]

Besides, you've answered your own question. While we're on the topic, why are there 7 days in a week? Why not 5? 5 would make a year so much more arbitrarily easy. Then we could have exactly 73 weeks a year. Why are there 24 hours in a day? Why not 30? Or 100 since we like being metric? And who put 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute?

It's because we live on a planet that orbits a star.

 

[torpid]

Your baking a meal, the recipe is for 2 people, you need to serve 20. Get back to me when you are finished converting tsp to tbsp to cups to pints to quarts to gallons. Ill just multiply the whole thing by ten instead.

For people that work heavily with measurements, the ability to convert quickly is pretty important. It is far less error prone.

But again, I don't see a good reason to switch the temperature scale.

Terrible example. You can't always multiply straight up when increasing the yield for recipes. And I would guess you can RARELY do it when going from 2 people to 20 in a baking recipe.

 

[Cogman]

Thats retarded, considering 1 gallon = 768 teaspoons, you would never convert that many units. If I really got lazy, I would just add 10 teaspoons. but who the hell measures that accurately when cooking? If I needed 10 teaspoons (or even 20), I'd eyeball it anyways.

Consider this, Some recipes call for measurements in cups and pints! And not only that, they require, GASP, MORE then one ingredient!

Good luck eyeballing something like a cake or a pie, or even bread.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

how is there more precision? There is this thing called a decimal point, you know.

again, whens the last time you told someone it was 22.222222222 degrees outside?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

but who the hell measures that accurately when cooking?

He said baking :awe:

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

again, whens the last time you told someone it was 22.222222222 degrees outside?

Temperature measurement is used for more than just ambient air temperature.

 

[Train]

Consider this, Some recipes call for measurements in cups and pints! And not only that, they require, GASP, MORE then one ingredient!

Good luck eyeballing something like a cake or a pie, or even bread.

OMG noes, because 8 pints to a gallon is SO HARD compared to 1 in 10. how the fuck will I ever multiply by eight? arghhhh if only I could be lazy and add a zero!

You make it sound like conversions are IMPOSSIBLE in imperial.

 

[torpid]

Consider this, Some recipes call for measurements in cups and pints! And not only that, they require, GASP, MORE then one ingredient!

Good luck eyeballing something like a cake or a pie, or even bread.

Of course, for baking, you generally want to measure by weight, not volume. In which case, the metric system offers more useful granularity than the ounce.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

WTF are you seriously that stupid? That's equivalent to me saying that 22c equals 71.6f, therefore Fahrenheit isn't precise enough. Wow, this is mind bending idiocy.

the idiocy is you my friend.

on most habitable parts of the earth, the temperature ranges from -30C to 45C.
that's -20F to 115F.

excluding decimals, because no one describes the weather with decimals, F has 135 units between teh extremes while C only has 75.

so now you tell me, which one has the ability to be more precise.
QED.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

His point was throughout your daily life, you don't need to make calculations. This is why engineers and scientists use it, and the rest of us have no need.

Well don't tell me none of you have ever wondered with what sort of force you would hit another car while driving fast? I wonder (in the interest of my safety) while speeding around, but then I have to convert from mph to meters/second etc., and become distracted while converting. When distracted I could crash and die. DIE. Bad. Don't tell me that has nothing to do with one's daily life.

 

[RaistlinZ]

The whole notion of "negative degrees" is stupid anyway. 0 degrees should mean Absolute 0. 0 ambient heat. Period.

 

[SunnyD]

It's because we live on a planet that orbits a star.

Which is relevant to the numbers 7, 12, 24, 52, 60, and 365 why? Oh yeah... just because. At least the 7 comes from religious reasons. The 12, 24 and 60 possibly due to the relation of a circle, but otherwise equally arbitrary. The others are just best-fits.

 

[Train]

Which is relevant to the numbers 7, 12, 24, 52, 60, and 365 why? Oh yeah... just because.

well 365 is relevant, as thats the number of revolutions per orbit. (even though its technically 365.25, which is why we have leap years)

 

[nerp]

The whole notion of "negative degrees" is stupid anyway. 0 degrees should mean Absolute 0. 0 ambient heat. Period.

Considering how cold some parts of our universe are, that would mean our day-to-day temperature would be a few thousand degrees. Yes, that sounds like a brilliant idea.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Well don't tell me none of you ever with what sort of force you would hit another car when driving fast?

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Considering how cold some parts of our universe are, that would mean our day-to-day temperature would be a few thousand degrees. Yes, that sounds like a brilliant idea.

No, in the Kelvin scale our temperatures are around 290-310.

 

[Locut0s]

Fahrenheit isn't more precise than celcius, it just has smaller intervals between degrees.

Bingo.

 

[nerp]

No, in the Kelvin scale our temperatures are around 290-310.

If we use kelvin, yes, but I'd like to see the people who say "but F has more granularity thus it is more accurate" react to a planet that uses kelvin as a base temperature. And imagine baking with an oven set to K. Yes, get your decimal point ready.

As a result, using 0 as absolute zero would suggest that using something other than K for temperature would be necessary for basic day-to-day use.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

And imagine baking with an oven set to K. Yes, get your decimal point ready.

Huh? Why would you use a decimal? The oven temperature control would just go from 450 to 650 (or something like that). No need to use decimals.

As a result, using 0 as absolute zero would suggest that using something other than K for temperature would be necessary for basic day-to-day use.

Why? It works perfectly. It uses the same granularity that most of the world has been using for ages, and uses a sensible zero value.

 

[Fayd]

F for life!

damn, can't edit titles? missed a word in there.

i only use rankine.

 

[RoloMather]

Stupid thread is stupid.

 

[videogames101]

Why don't we use the system that makes sense, kelvin...

 

[Fayd]

Why don't we use the system that makes sense, kelvin...

because rankine is more fun.

 

[darkxshade]

I use the darkxshade scale... today is either:

Hot
Warm
Perfect
Cool
Cold

With my scale you are free to use prefixes... "Today is fucking hot" for example is more precise than either Celsius or Fahreinheit. Please adopt today!