I love how my phone is all like "it's 26°" and I get excited
oh yeah it's in fahrenheit and I can't get it to change to Celsius (the fairier measurement @MethDozer )
ArishMell · 70-79, M
I do sympathise!
I am perfectly happy with degrees-C for anything technical but am still not really accustomed to them for ordinary weather temperatures apart from freezing (0ºC).
Of the other day-to-day metric / SI units, the one that trips me up is that wretched centimetre. It is not a "preferred unit" and having used both Imperial and metric dimensions properly for most of my work over forty-odd years, and in my hobbies, I find the cm nowt but a clumsy nuisance. Sometimes I need times a quoted number of cm by ten to make sense of it.
I have met many others who say the same, including two or three science and "D&T" teachers; but the schools insist on teaching it in "mathematics" (well, mainly arithmetic, more likely, I suspect) yet correctly use the m and mm in science and craft lessons.
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Oh, and if your phone can quote only "like" values, it's not very accurate, is it? :-)
I am perfectly happy with degrees-C for anything technical but am still not really accustomed to them for ordinary weather temperatures apart from freezing (0ºC).
Of the other day-to-day metric / SI units, the one that trips me up is that wretched centimetre. It is not a "preferred unit" and having used both Imperial and metric dimensions properly for most of my work over forty-odd years, and in my hobbies, I find the cm nowt but a clumsy nuisance. Sometimes I need times a quoted number of cm by ten to make sense of it.
I have met many others who say the same, including two or three science and "D&T" teachers; but the schools insist on teaching it in "mathematics" (well, mainly arithmetic, more likely, I suspect) yet correctly use the m and mm in science and craft lessons.
..
Oh, and if your phone can quote only "like" values, it's not very accurate, is it? :-)
NerdyPotato · M
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NerdyPotato · M
@ArishMell the 0 point was using a common method to cool things down at that time. But sticking to it now when most people can't recreate that, makes very little sense other than habit.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@NerdyPotato Indeed, hence the move to using water.
I am not enamoured with some SI units for being a little too "coherent" for their own good (the Pascal is perhaps the worst), but the degree-Celsius is one of the most rational, practical and comprehensible of them.
I am not enamoured with some SI units for being a little too "coherent" for their own good (the Pascal is perhaps the worst), but the degree-Celsius is one of the most rational, practical and comprehensible of them.
thepreposterouspanda · 36-40, M
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
caccoon · 36-40
@vetguy1991 it was mild today but 26 in Celsius is huge summer
Straylight · 31-35, F
caccoon · 36-40
@Straylight no 😤
JRVanguard · 26-30, M
Notsimilarreally · 31-35, F
