• teawrecks
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    1 year ago

    FWIW Fahrenheit has more precision for the temperatures you most commonly feel. Day-to-day you’re likely to feel temps between 10-32°C (range of 22°), which is 50-90°F (range of 40°). It might not seem like a big deal, but I can tell a difference in my house when setting my thermostat from 68°F to 69°F; conversely, if I turn my thermostat to C mode both values get rounded to 20.

    But yes, as an American, I think of CPU temps in terms of C, I know water freezes at 0°C/32°F, I know water boils at 100°C but have never committed to memory what it is in F, and in chem classes we always use C/K.

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      1 year ago

      Can you set your thermostat to 68.5°F? I can set mine to 21.5°C, does that mean I have more precision? This precision argument is nonsense.

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        Yeah, if it can do 21.5 then that would be the same amount of precision.

        Thermostats aren’t the only place this shows up tho. There was the infamous iphone weather app quirk where the F temp was always derived from the C temp, and only used an integer value under the hood for C, so after converting and rounding, it would never show 69F.

        I was responding to someone who said F had less precision, but for the temperatures most relevant to humans, it’s deliberately designed to have more precision.

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      1 year ago

      conversely, if I turn my thermostat to C mode both values get rounded to 20.

      You should find a better thermostat. Most thermostats that I have used had at least a precision of 0.5 ºC.