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[QuentinGeorge]

The benefit of Fahrenheit's scale is that of being the typical range for human habitation.
That being, nominally, for most of Europe and the Americas, 0° to 100° Fahrenheit. Which is roughly -17° C to 38°C
Adding another 15°F to each end, so -15° to 115° F, and you get most of the inhabited deserts and tundras. That is to -27 to 47°C

Centigrade is no benefit over Kelvin, and Kelvin is what's used in physics. One could do the same transform to Fahrenheit that Kelvin did to Celsius... and have a 460-560 range for human comfortable hab, and 445 to 575 for overall range.

Likewise, the base 10 sucks as a mathematical function; we'd be far better off for mental math with base 12.

Lol. Americans love to bring up the "benefits" of Fahrenheit for human's conception of temperature and let me tell you. It is bogus. No one who has grown up without Fahrenheit has difficult understanding what temperature is hot and what is cold. No one is clamoring to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit so that people can understand temperatures. The only people who feel Fahrenheit is necessary are those already using it.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The real benefit to base 10 is that we write numbers in nice little columns that all have 10 digits in them. If we invented two more digits, and kept them in the same columns, then base 12 would have a chance - but only after about 3-5 generations. You'd need everyone who held on to the "old way" to die off, and everyone that they stubbornly taught.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

The real benefit to base 10 is that we write numbers in nice little columns that all have 10 digits in them. If we invented two more digits, and kept them in the same columns, then base 12 would have a chance - but only after about 3-5 generations. You'd need everyone who held on to the "old way" to die off, and everyone that they stubbornly taught.

We also have 10 fingers, which I suspect is the main reason for it.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

We also have 10 fingers, which I suspect is the main reason for it.

That IS widely considered why we came up with 10 numbers, yes. Many human civilizations count that way, but not all of them. There's no reason why we have to do it that way! (Just most of us would rather not re-learn it!)

 

[QuentinGeorge]

That IS widely considered why we came up with 10 numbers, yes. Many human civilizations count that way, but not all of them. There's no reason why we have to do it that way! (Just most of us would rather not re-learn it!)

Yes but totally artificial systems imposed on populations because they are more logical tend to fail if they conflict with how people live their lives on a practical level. (How much of the calendar reforms did post-Revolutionary France keep?)

 

[jdrakeh]

The Forgotten Realms is kitchen sink crap.

[Edit: I'll still play in D&D games set there but it's my least favorite D&D setting.]

 

[Gradine]

6. Dragon Age: Origins is the best D&D video game ever made. And it doesn't take place in a D&D world (even though the setting is better designed than the majority of D&D worlds).

Fun fact: the setting of Dragon Age is Thedas. Thedas wasn't going to be the name of the setting, it was just supposed to be a placeholder, standing for "THE Dragon Age Setting"

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Fun fact: the setting of Dragon Age is Thedas. Thedas wasn't going to be the name of the setting, it was just supposed to be a placeholder, standing for "THE Dragon Age Setting"

Yep. I'd heard that before. It's a pretty cool and fitting fantasy name, and the fact that it's an acronym makes it even cooler.

 

[aramis erak]

That's called the Rankine scale.

I knew it existed, just not its name.

 

[aramis erak]

The Forgotten Realms is kitchen sink crap.

I routinely refer to the "«Better Left Forgotten» Realms"