I totally forgot why & now it's bugging me...
Tried googling & searched here but to no avail.
So yeah, why?
Tried googling & searched here but to no avail.
So yeah, why?
Why does the US use Fahrenheit?
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It HAS to be different from the rest of the world
Same reason it has NTSC, 110 Volt etc....
standardizations? bleh..
Same reason it has NTSC, 110 Volt etc....
standardizations? bleh..
Hehe, w3rd! Nah, I do think that we should just fall in line with the metric system. Having been taught in fahrenheit and ft/inches and then suddenly switching to the metric system in college is not good. Kids should just be taught the metric system. Just my $.02
Zenmervolt
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Because we're all smart enough here to convert one English unit into another English unit. We don't need the crutch of a base-10 system
It's also because the instep of a dead king is much easier to visualise as a measurement than an acute mis-understanding of the circumference of the earth in terms of the wavelength of a certain isotope of krypton.
ZV
It's also because the instep of a dead king is much easier to visualise as a measurement than an acute mis-understanding of the circumference of the earth in terms of the wavelength of a certain isotope of krypton.
ZV
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Originally posted by: PraetorianGuards
Hehe, w3rd! Nah, I do think that we should just fall in line with the metric system. Having been taught in fahrenheit and ft/inches and then suddenly switching to the metric system in college is not good. Kids should just be taught the metric system. Just my $.02
Dude, having been taught metric systems in high school, then getting an OLD teacher for physics in college who only taught in ft/inches is worse!
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ask the english. the metric system came out of the frech revolution. did you know they tried to re-invent the second too?
as for 220, do you really need that? i can think of a whole 2 things that use it. the stove and the drier.
as for 220, do you really need that? i can think of a whole 2 things that use it. the stove and the drier.
I moved to the USA 7 years ago and I still don't know how many teaspoons are in a cup or how many ounces are in a gallon.
I never had a problem in college making conversion between any scales. I mean my HP did most of the hard work in converting.
Because it shows more variation than Celsius? I don't know if that's a reason, really, but it is an added benefit.
In all seriousness I don't know. But I would guess it's because our founders, the UK, started out with Fahrenheit, passed it on to us and from then on there has never been a compelling reason to change. The U.S. is geographically isolated and historically very little of its contact with other nations had depended on standardized scales of measurement. With increasing globalization the ability to communicate with foreigners is becoming more important, but by now anything that requires precise calculations is already done in Kelvin or degrees C anyway. Who really cares if Joe Average uses degrees Fahrenheit in his everyday life? There's no reason to switch over just to conform with the rest of the world...it's just a waste of money.
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I was told in grade school that by the time I was in college everyone in the US would be using metric. Of course they were full of crap and I hear they are still telling kids that.
Canada was also founded by the UK so did we start on Fahrenheit also and then switch to centigrade?
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