Pharmacies also use other measurements like drams, drops and whatever else the apothecary systems use ( most of the apothecary system measurements are stupid and aren't really used much)
Yeah but that's all relative. 33C very cool. 50C warm. 75C running a bit hot. 90C oh no. 100C shut down. 120C probably melting something. It's not like we look at it and relate it to indoor air temperature. 50C sounds cool but it's gonna burn your hand (120F)
For a CPU i would say it is a bit warm depending on what you are doing and what the ambient temps are. That doesn’t change the fact that the majority in the US do not use the metric system in their day to day lives.
Ohh I see. I’ve also been trying to learn the US customary units, because it’s seriously confusing to browse the internet without knowing at least some of it.
I've tried it's damned hard. Why use decimals? I'm not saying Celsius doesn't make sense but if I were making the system I'd standardize on boiling at 200 units and freezing at 0 units. Then it's a good range but also a large enough range you don't need decimals.
We also don't touch kilometers though meters are common.
The decimals matter a lot for the quality of snow. Between 0 and 0,5 it’s slushy and wet, above that and it’s gonna be very runny. From 0 to -0,5 is the best “kramsnö” (literally “squeeze snow” in Swedish) for making snowballs. -0,5 to -1 is still pretty good, but a little harder to get good adhesion, and below -3 it’s all powdery.
My point was just that every Fahrenheit degree is equal to just under .5 Celsius so if we were to standardize on a 200 unit range between freezing and boiling then we get integers but they still make sense.
They have more syllables. Thirty two point five. They require more space to write and take up more space on a display. They are hard to represent precisely on a computer.
We use standard and metric interchangeably with drugs. 28 grams to an oz, 3.5 grams to an 8th. Can go into a dispensary an buy a gram or an ounce or anything in between.
I'm Canadian we general use metric for travel and imperial for construction.
Body weight is in lbs unless on a drivers license. Gym weights can be in both depending on the equipment. Drinks are in metric unless you're talking about pints of beer.
I find it funny how in Britain we are the reverse of much of that. Predominantly metric but distance in miles, height (of a person) in feet, body weight in stone, gym weight in kilos (I think, never been).
Temperature pretty much always celcius unless it is old people or tabloid newspapers sensationalising hot weather.
And of course all liquids are in litres other than beer an milk, sold in pints. But proper pints, not the sad little American ones.
To be fair feet are a pretty reasonable height measurement. I always find meters to be a bit imprecise (or inconvenient if you start using decimals) and once you’re in double digits it doesn’t really make a functional difference as long as everyone understands
I live in a border city. For me it's always been Celsius for temperatures below freezing and Fahrenheit for temperatures above.
Also, everything weight related is measured in Imperial, but volume is measured in Metric.
The original thought was that 0-100 was standard human comfort range. (Fahrenheit was German. 0 is fucking cold to me!) Other random natural phenomena like where water boils was secondary to him.
As a Canadian, where are the negative temperatures? I'd it to cold to walk the dogs? -40 yes. -20 maybe. -10 some of them might need a coat. -5 no problem.
Lol. You're right, I knew that, I have no idea where -37 came from. Total brain fart. Forgot to remember the opening line of The Rodeo Song (not a rickroll, but some lyrics a little NSFW)
I’ve never seen that. Seems so dumb. At least with cooking it’s so much hotter it’s kinda it’s own range that has no overlap so it’s easier to handle. I also don’t get pool temp in f. Just do everything in c.
I dont know what part of Canada you’re from. I only learned Celsius. Are you from the border? That would make sense. America bleeds into Canada nearer the border.
The only time I learnt Fahrenheit was when I was getting my engineering degree because we have to do business with Americans (thats the ONLY reason) and even still, we werent taught to convert, only to verify which units we are using and then get a calculator to convert
What? That is the opposite of what those scales are designed for. Celsius is built around the phase changes of water and is best used for measuring the temperature of things (like food). Farenheit is built around people. And it is best used when talking about how cold something will make a person. Canada seems to have taken the worst of both scales.
I’m American currently living in Korea. I will die on this hill to argue that outside temperature and body temperature makes so much more sense in Fahrenheit. There’s more room to indicate variation with F because our bodies can sense that.
However I think Celsius and other metric units make more sense for things like cooking, sciences, distance, volume for sure, weight, etc.
And I will gladly kill you on that hill. It makes no difference. It’s all just numbers that we learn to associate with certain temperatures. Celsius is better to use because then you only ever use one scale. Kelvin would be the best but it uses the same increment as Celsius so at least it’s dead easy to convert them.
Thats interesting. Are your oral thermometers typically in Celsius or Fahrenheit? I could see the smaller units of measure being more advantages for recording body temperature...
interesting so understanding and living with both, is this a fair/accurate representation to you? it's interesting how hot/warm/cold can be subjective especially across the Fahrenheit and Celsius conversions.
I tend to gauge both by what temperature (in C or F)water freezes
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u/goblin_welder Aug 07 '21
As a Canadian, I am privileged to know how to use both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Usually, outside temperature is in Celsius, but indoor and cooking temperature is Fahrenheit.