• frezik@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    Base 10 makes it much easier to remember.

    When was the last time you did math related to temperature?

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      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?

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      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.