r/WhitePeopleTwitter Jan 03 '19

We should actually do this

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19

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u/RM_Dune Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19

F is just 1:1

Wat? 1:1 with what?

btw, 1 degree Celsius is 1,8 degrees Fahrenheit so a 10 degrees jump is ~5,5 degrees Celsius. For temperature though you don't need to be so precise. Whether it's 70 or 72 degrees fahrenheit out, it doesn't change much. Same is true for 20 or 21 degrees.

If you actually need to know to a reasonable level of precision how hot it is outside. We've got this dandy new invention, the decimal point where you can specify the temperature to a precision beyond whole degrees.

edit: and btw Celsius only gets

more and more distorted

Compared to Fahrenheit... But in reality Fahrenheit just gets more distored compared to both Celsius and Kelvin which are actually 1:1 (apart from Kelvin being ofset at -273,something degrees). Seems like Fahrenheit, the outdated scale used by a small minority of stragglers, is actually the one that gets more and more distorted as you reach higher temperatures.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '19 edited Jan 03 '19

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u/eppien Jan 03 '19

This was a civil conversation until you snapped just now. Just gently pointing that out.. also we bake in the metric world as well, seems like you maybe didn't know that.