American friends, I'm curious: how would you react if the Times acted like a global media and switched to Celsius (or at the very least labelled its units)?
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Celcius is the one unit where the rest of the world has it wrong, and America is right - Faerenheit is absolutely the better, more human-centric unit. Celcius isn't even metric, so you can't defend it that way. ^_^
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Irrelevant, Kelvin is the actual SI unit. Converting to K is already non-trivial from C, going from F isn't much different.
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My point isn't to say we should use Β°C for everyday temperatures. Only that your pedantic point that "Celsius isn't even metric" was wrong. Pedantic nitpick to a pedantic nitpick. That said, using K for everyday temperature would be totally sweet.
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Sure but would you use the Unicode Kelvin K, or just ASCII capital K? π€
Unicode consortium says later is what we should do.
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What kind of animal would deliberately use a Unicode compatibility character instead of the decomposition form?
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I disagree with @tabatkins about Fahrenheit being better for humans; I think the size of a degree is better in Celsius, where a degree difference in temperature is perceivable, rather than Fahrenheit where we tend to say "low 60's" and "mid 70's" all the time.
Jan 6, 2018 Β· 3:08 AM UTC
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