fahrenheit is actually the perfect system
all i'm saying is that a system where 0 is "really uncomfortably cold" and 100 is "really uncomfortably hot" is, on some human level, actually very intuitive and i stand by it
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in reply to @sperra's post:
It's not perfect, but has that very attractive property. It just had the misfortune of being invented before we knew about absolute zero so it has a super inconvenient conversation factor to absolute terms.
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My favorite is the Planck temperature units. 0 = really cold 1 = really hot and there is no need for numbers outside of 0..1
Truth. Temperature doesn't have subdivisions that need decimalized, so a lot of the advantages that metric has for length/mass/volume don't apply.
