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It's 1 degree outside! (Original Post) Archae Dec 2013 OP
It's a relatively balmy 16 here now HarveyDarkey Dec 2013 #1
No longer 1 degree Archae Dec 2013 #2
We were there last night HarveyDarkey Dec 2013 #3
-25C here - that equals -12F ConcernedCanuk Dec 2013 #4
Fuck you and your hyper cozy life... Locut0s Dec 2013 #6
Oh you Americans and your crazy Fahrenheits... Locut0s Dec 2013 #5
I am a total fan of the metric system but centigrade is stupid. CBGLuthier Dec 2013 #8
How can it offer less precision?... Locut0s Dec 2013 #10
Come hang with me! PasadenaTrudy Dec 2013 #7
Sun tea steeping on the patio. antiquie Dec 2013 #9
-3 here. Blue_In_AK Dec 2013 #11
 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
4. -25C here - that equals -12F
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 05:54 AM
Dec 2013

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But I'm quite toasty inside

6 feet away from my laptop

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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
6. Fuck you and your hyper cozy life...
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 05:59 AM
Dec 2013

Joking obviously

I DO envy you though.

Have a wonderful Christmas up there in that cozy little property of yours!!

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
8. I am a total fan of the metric system but centigrade is stupid.
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 12:01 PM
Dec 2013

It offers less precision and no real advantage that I can see.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
10. How can it offer less precision?...
Mon Dec 16, 2013, 09:38 PM
Dec 2013

Precision is a feature of a measurement and thus the tool used to perform the measurement. It's true that a jump of one deg F represents a smaller unit of energy / temp than a jump of one deg C. But both scales are technically infinitely precise. Just keep pushing the decimal place to the right, assuming the tool you are using is cable of the needed precision.

Of course the scale we should be using is neither. We should be using Kelvin But then who want's to say it's a toasty 305.15 K outside today?

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