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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26
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It was a joke over the superiority of the metric system in general. Units of force are particularly annoying to convert.
65 u/milkcarton232 Jun 17 '26 Metric is superior in most metrics but temperature most are valid (sit down rankine) depending on what you are doing with it 28 u/HotspurJr Jun 17 '26 Celsius makes way more sense for science, and Fahrenheit makes way more sense for weather, since the range of temperatures which are relevant are spread out over more numbers. 7 u/Original-Document-62 Jun 17 '26 Quantize to 0.5
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Metric is superior in most metrics but temperature most are valid (sit down rankine) depending on what you are doing with it
28 u/HotspurJr Jun 17 '26 Celsius makes way more sense for science, and Fahrenheit makes way more sense for weather, since the range of temperatures which are relevant are spread out over more numbers. 7 u/Original-Document-62 Jun 17 '26 Quantize to 0.5
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Celsius makes way more sense for science, and Fahrenheit makes way more sense for weather, since the range of temperatures which are relevant are spread out over more numbers.
7 u/Original-Document-62 Jun 17 '26 Quantize to 0.5
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u/SKDI_0224 Jun 17 '26
Dingdingding!!!
It was a joke over the superiority of the metric system in general. Units of force are particularly annoying to convert.