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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nai_Calus" data-source="post: 4740919" data-attributes="member: 79670">I use what I use because: It's what's used in my country, and I do not have the means to travel to other ones where it isn't. I have no actual pressing reason to learn anything else, especially when from the point of view of my daily usage of it, there isn't anything actually wrong with it.Sure, from the outside it probably looks like a confusing nonsensical mess. Using it? Uh... Nope. I have never once thought 'You know this makes no sense' while using it. Because, well, it's what I use. I was raised on it, never had a problem with it and really don't understand what the heck is supposed to be so godawful about it. I guess it drags metric users into dark alleyways and beats them? Seriously. Why am I so horribly wrong?Especially C vs F. C doesn't seem to be any more rational and functional than F, and the degrees are *bigger*, which doesn't seem to help accuracy with the gross differences measured by saying 'It's 83 degrees outside today'. You can say -459.67 F as easily as you can -273.15 C, so why does it even matter? I don't even think about the freezing or boiling points of water when I'm saying I like the temperature to be around 65 degress (F), so why do I even care if having them at 0 and 100 'makes sense', especially when neither of those is actually accurate? (Especially given the massive variability of the actual boiling point of water...)Come to think of it, with all this emphasis on 'its better because the math is easier', why haven't C and K been thrown out already in favour of more 'sensible' systems? They're currently defining them using abs 0 and the triple point of Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, which has led to the aformentioned thing with neither 0 or 100 actually being what they claim. Why not define absolute 0 as 0, the triple point of VSMOW as, say, 500(Or 1000 to make it all cute with the metric system), and defining a degree as 1/500th(Or 1/1000th) of the difference between the two? Actually, no, seriously, why not? Is it impractical somehow? (In a way OTHER than 'but you'd have to learn a new temperature scale', well yeah guess what I'd have to do to switch to C) Is my logic flawed and I'm not seeing it? What?Edit: This thread is making me want to use the D'ni number system from the Myst series as the number system for some race or other in my campaign. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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