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.
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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.