Freedom units
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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It would be an easy switch for me outside of speed and temperature.
I think farenheight makes the most sense when it comes to describing a comfortable temperature. Baking , computers, and what-not, celsius makes more sense.
Speed, well, that'd take me a long time to get used to.
Measuring for home projects and the like wouldn't be difficult as I had already made that switch at my last job.
"Making sense" is probably a habit, but all the units in Si are made so they are easy to convert to and from. Temperature included. So there's practicality tied to it. Just like 1l of water is also 1kg of water, which is also 1000cm³ of water. Same thing goes with temperature where Celsius is tied to transition states of the water, 0° for freezing, 100°C for boiling/gas. But it's not as tightly related as other units and even more rarely used for conversion. For us in the Si world it makes sense because everything is in scales of 100 or 1000, with definite start and end.
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