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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

At 160 million we may as well just be using kelivn.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you considered that it's never okay to use America anything including numbers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fahrenheit does have a wider range of whole numbers to express the temperatures in our daily climate. Unfortunately the digital thermostats I had for years, even one in Shanghai, would step in 0.5 deg increments regardless of it being in F or C. I assume it was using K internally throughout the system, so keeping it in F meant more granularity (68, 68.5, 69 being more specific temps than 20, 20.5, 21 could dial in). And it was noticeable enough to where I'd keep it in F (except one time when I was sick and wanted in between the two possible F setpoints).

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

At that scale they're equal