• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    When it comes to a single number on a scale, whatever you grew up with will be more “obvious”. 100F doesn’t give me any more information than 38C does. The whole “base 10” thing only matters if you are actually doing some math to that number.

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      10 days ago

      Base 10 makes it much easier to remember.

      When was the last time you did math related to temperature?

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        10 days ago

        For day to day use, it’s just a single number, no one is doing any conversions, etc, with the number. That was my point. There’s nothing to remember. Do you forget what 72F feels like? Do you have to scale it in your head?

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 days ago

        base 10 is literally just 0-9 so yeah, everyone remembers that.

        scaling based on the base 10 figure makes conversions easier, so there’s that.