Langehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itmessage-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down19
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itLangehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareviking@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6 months agoWould just be confusing. Temperatures above a few hundred degrees have no place in most people’s daily lives, so that would be mostly for scientific notations, and scientists use Kelvin anyway for precision.
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down3·6 months agoThe use of kelvin over Celsius has nothing to do with precision. They’re the same thing, with different offsets.
minus-squareMidRomney@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down24·6 months agoFahrenheit solves this
Would just be confusing. Temperatures above a few hundred degrees have no place in most people’s daily lives, so that would be mostly for scientific notations, and scientists use Kelvin anyway for precision.
The use of kelvin over Celsius has nothing to do with precision. They’re the same thing, with different offsets.
Fahrenheit solves this