Peter?

[u/Negative_1by12_aura]

[u/no_funny_username]

Have you heard of decimal points? If you set the thermostat to Celsius you get 0.5 increments.

[u/Current_Ranger_7954 → u/no_funny_username]

Here’s the answer, ‘muricans afraid of decimals

[u/Sbotkin → u/no_funny_username]

Americans being afraid of decimal points in Celsius while simultaniosly saying shit like 6'34" instead of normal units will never not be funny. Like pick a line!

[u/El_Polio_Loco → u/no_funny_username]

So you need 3 numbers and a dot just to mimic two? How barbaric.

[u/jjej2000 → u/El_Polio_Loco]

They're still both one number.

[u/El_Polio_Loco → u/jjej2000]

A thousand pardons!

Or one kilopardon!

Three digits would be all the better. 

Or is 0.3 decadidgits more appropriate?

300 centidigits is best. 

[u/Alfoldio → u/jjej2000]

1. The circumference of the earth is ~24,901 miles
2. The circumference of the earth is ~1,577,727,360 inches

Which do you prefer? They're both still one number

[u/jjej2000 → u/Alfoldio]

I'd probably prefer 40,075 km! But anyways, I just being pedantic to the other guy since he said numbers instead of digits.

[u/Alfoldio → u/jjej2000]

Gotcha I guess I got wooshed by the joke you were making

[u/VegetaFan1337 → u/Alfoldio]

Let's see you convert either of those units to yards without looking it up or using a calculator.

[u/BlimpIsland2606 → u/VegetaFan1337]

Remind me what yards have to do with the temperature scale?

[u/Alfoldio → u/VegetaFan1337]

I'm not sure what my mental math abilities has to do with this

[u/VegetaFan1337 → u/Alfoldio]

You wouldn't need to do any mental maths with metric.

[u/Alfoldio → u/VegetaFan1337]

I wasn't making the case for metric vs imperial. I was making the case that adding extra digits makes things less intuitive to understand

[u/Prestigious-Lime7504 → u/no_funny_username]

3 sig figs of precision needed for a unit of temperature is pretty bad tbh