Metric system = best system

[Killerwhale]

If you disagree, please state why.

And i'm talking about metres and crap, not celcius and fahrenheit.

[Starbug]

Publicado originalmente por 𝓂𝒶𝓎𝒶:

No no no, Celsius is the easiest and the best way to measure temperature

Totally agree. 0 = cold, 100 = boiling.

[Magma Dragoon]

Publicado originalmente por BloodShed:

Publicado originalmente por whatamidoing:

Imperial is much more useful for everyday life,

How so?

With metric you know water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C

Instead of 32°F and 212°F respectively.

Why water and not mercury? or gallium arsenide? Why at 1 atmosphere of pressure instead of a vacuum? Celsius is just as arbitrary a scale as Fahrenheit. Besides, 0-100F is much more relevant to my experience than 0-100C.

[Starbug]

Publicado originalmente por Magma Dragoon:

Publicado originalmente por BloodShed:

How so?

With metric you know water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C

Instead of 32°F and 212°F respectively.

Why water and not mercury? or gallium arsenide? Why at 1 atmosphere of pressure instead of a vacuum? Celsius is just as arbitrary a scale as Fahrenheit. Besides, 0-100F is much more relevant to my experience than 0-100C.

Maybe because we don't make hot beverages with poisonous substances.

[𝕄𝕣.𝕊𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟]

Publicado originalmente por Magma Dragoon:

Publicado originalmente por BloodShed:

How so?

With metric you know water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C

Instead of 32°F and 212°F respectively.

Why water and not mercury? or gallium arsenide? Why at 1 atmosphere of pressure instead of a vacuum? Celsius is just as arbitrary a scale as Fahrenheit. Besides, 0-100F is much more relevant to my experience than 0-100C.

It's actually more arbitrary since Fahrenheit is based on three water related variables, rather than just two. (Yes, the freezing, and boiling points of water are not fixed positions)

[Gus the Crocodile]

Publicado originalmente por Magma Dragoon:

Why water and not mercury? or gallium arsenide? Why at 1 atmosphere of pressure instead of a vacuum?

Using expensive and toxic materials when water will do would be a pretty bad choice; I'm not sure I'd call that "arbitrary".

As of this year, Celsius isn't based on measuring the triple point of water anymore anyway; it's now defined by setting the Boltzmann constant to a particular value.

[whatamidoing]

Publicado originalmente por Gus the Crocodile:

Publicado originalmente por Magma Dragoon:

Why water and not mercury? or gallium arsenide? Why at 1 atmosphere of pressure instead of a vacuum?

Using expensive and toxic materials when water will do would be a pretty bad choice; I'm not sure I'd call that "arbitrary".

As of this year, Celsius isn't based on measuring the triple point of water anymore anyway; it's now defined by setting the Boltzmann constant to a particular value.

Ah yes, lemme just set my boltzmann constant to a particular value, that's practical and relevant to everyday life.

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

Publicado originalmente por (TF2SP) The Cooler Aya:

tbh kelvin is the best temperature measurement

celcius=a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ equations
farenheit= more convenient standard
kelvin=farenheit + 275. No absolute 0 kelvin ever

Kelvin is Celsius+273.15 just to let you know
And yes it's the best since its an absolute scale

[whatamidoing]

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Publicado originalmente por (TF2SP) The Cooler Aya:

tbh kelvin is the best temperature measurement

celcius=a bunch of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ equations
farenheit= more convenient standard
kelvin=farenheit + 275. No absolute 0 kelvin ever

Kelvin is Celsius+273.15 just to let you know
And yes it's the best since its an absolute scale

rankine exists though

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

Publicado originalmente por whatamidoing:

Publicado originalmente por screw you admin:

Kelvin is Celsius+273.15 just to let you know
And yes it's the best since its an absolute scale

rankine exists though

Which is essentially also a rip off of Kelvin no one uses it

[Gus the Crocodile]

Publicado originalmente por whatamidoing:

Ah yes, lemme just set my boltzmann constant to a particular value, that's practical and relevant to everyday life.

Why would it need to be? I've managed my whole life without making sure I measure the triple point of water before I use a thermometer, even though that's what the Celsius scale has been based on that whole time. The thermometers still worked, funnily enough.

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

I didn't know Celsius is defined on the basis of Boltzmann constant either way is it from the formula
K.E=3/2KT

[WhispersOfTheWind]

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Publicado originalmente por HellsWind:

It's pretty handy.

Not... ''feety''.

Nice try at a joke, but I have the feeling you aren't aware that hands are an Imperial unit of measure. Imperial is much more "handy" than metric.

It was more a personal interpretation on the literal difference between the two (One is measured in feet other is in sort of arms/hands/thumbs length kind of thing) than an attempt at a joke but if that was funny to you I'm more the glad for it than anything else.

[Γαῖα]

Publicado originalmente por (TF2SP) The Cooler Aya:

Publicado originalmente por Gus the Crocodile:

From where I'm standing, it always seems a bit odd the way Americans in "metric vs imperial" discussions line up to act like decimal points are challenging. "Weird flex" etc etc. Maybe being exposed to them more often would actually be a good thing, improving numeracy skills so that they're not a scary concept?

Second though, the idea that decimal points are "required" seems a bit of an assumption anyway. I check the forecast most days, and my weather app tells me it'll me, say, 26.5 degrees C, but it's not like I'd actually plan my day any differently if it was just a flat 26 or 27 instead.

The other major 'everyday use' of temperature is probably checking the temperature of a sick kid, but in that case surely you'd want more information rather than less? There's no benefit to having a less detailed measurement - you can always ignore detail you don't need, but you can't invent it later if it's not measured.

Publicado originalmente por (TF2SP) The Cooler Aya:

Not as a science man as a regular person.

not everyone irl uses .00000000000000000000000001 % of a degree

like pi pie...PI where most people know it as 3.14. Well not everyone wants to know more than that number


if you say otherwise you're the type of person they'd tell to stfu b/c no one wants another smart ass or egoist person who thinks having more knowledge=they're better than you. In other words no one likes anyone that puts on airs. Just stick to the 3.14 and it'll be enough and less math computations.

tl;dr sometimes it pays to be more general than specific.

One is more accurate but in everyday conversations it's easier to go with the less accurate one. Like if you give someone directions which would be easier? Streets and numbers or location of buildings and pointing with hand signs or compass directions.

like i said as a man of science gotta say metric

but

in everyday life imperial is much more convenient and easier to use

If theres one thing i have learnt when having to train people in reality away from the classroom, its that people take from different queues. Some people respond to streets like numbers while others respond to locations,landmarks like shapes.
Now you say go with the less accurate because its easier. Well in science and engineering we call that lazy or a serious lack of understanding.
Range is what decides the need to be accurate as 0.0001 rather than 0.0000458285 can have dire consequences further down the line. The degree of permissible inaccuracy is conducive to relativity which as a man of science you should know only to well.
Perhaps it would be advisable that you experience some hands on engineering/applied science as often is the case our theorists/planners are out by quite a margin.

Now they wont or wouldnt have taught/teached this in schools and such but make the time to have fun with numbers and shapes as your be quite surprised at what your discover when away from the prescriptions of others. Now im not saying you wont find the exact observation in a book but chances are its not the books your use to reading and digesting.

[Blueface]

Anything that is not farenhain is good

[628]

Publicado originalmente por Killerwhale:

If you disagree, please state why.

Partially disagree. Since I've been a huge fan of flight games, I'd love to see the instruments and HUD being "mile/knot" oriented. In daily life metric is the best tho.

Publicado originalmente por afr1kaN:

Anything that is not farenhain is good

Fahrenheit scale works better in North America imo. The climate differ a lot in one continent, from Arctic coast to the Panama Canal.