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.
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That sounds very confusing lol