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GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 months agoIn metric, we aren’t scared of using a decimal if we have to. Our thermometers can be as precise as we need them.
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GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 months agoIn metric, we aren’t scared of using a decimal if we have to. Our thermometers can be as precise as we need them.
derf82@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yet weather reports rarely include them.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 months ago
…because we don’t need them.
derf82@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You go if you want to be precise as Fahrenheit is without decimals.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Weather forecasts are only accurate to 1 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 1 degree Celsius. So the only example you’ve given where Fahrenheit is “superior” is one where the accuracy is so low that we just shrug and give a number in the middle of the range. This doesn’t make using Fahrenheit more accurate, this just makes the scale irrelevant and we use a whole number because having a convention where we skip some would be pointless.
As for being more precise without decimals, I live in a country with half-decent education standards, so decimals and fractions don’t scare me.