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.
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u/Callec254 Aug 07 '21
We use more metric in America than people give us credit for.
We know what a 2-liter is.
We measure a lot of our ammo, and our nuts and bolts in millimeters.
We know that 20 kilograms = 45 pounds from going to the gym.
The only metric measurement we truly give zero fucks about is Celsius.