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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

why not make it more arbitrary? Why not leave metric rules and use something like twelve that has fractions? Because it's nice. It's pleasing having it be 0f and 100f, it's a clean range, and it's also pretty comprehensive in terms of the temperature variance.

It just happens to work out pretty nicely.

You're literally just applying the anti-thesis of the metric system to the question, and asking me why we don't do it that way, idk what you're expecting me to say here.

do celsius users not consider something like -20c to be "pretty cold" and 40c to be "pretty hot" That's equally as arbitrary.