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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down4·edit-22 months agoBase 10 makes it much easier to remember. When was the last time you did math related to temperature?
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 months agoFor day to day use, it’s just a single number, no one is doing any conversions, etc, with the number. That was my point. There’s nothing to remember. Do you forget what 72F feels like? Do you have to scale it in your head?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agobase 10 is literally just 0-9 so yeah, everyone remembers that. scaling based on the base 10 figure makes conversions easier, so there’s that.
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoKelvin is used for math pretty regularly. Rankine was too.
Base 10 makes it much easier to remember.
When was the last time you did math related to temperature?
For day to day use, it’s just a single number, no one is doing any conversions, etc, with the number. That was my point. There’s nothing to remember. Do you forget what 72F feels like? Do you have to scale it in your head?
base 10 is literally just 0-9 so yeah, everyone remembers that.
scaling based on the base 10 figure makes conversions easier, so there’s that.
Kelvin is used for math pretty regularly. Rankine was too.