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That is not the point of what is being stated. I even made the point that you can still depict any and all temperatures in either scale (one is not more or less precise than the other). It is that Fahrenheit is specifically designed to give you MORE whole numbers to work with over most temperature ranges (when he designed it, the Celsius system did not exist, and the Romer system was used. This had water freeze at 7.5, body temp at 22.5, and water boiling at 60 degrees. Fahrenheit made the conscious decision to space the range out more (specifically multiply the existing range by 4) to remove more of the common fractional numbers for common temperatures.

Celsius came after Romer and Fahrenheit were created, and the Fahrenheit scale is unarguably more fine grained than Celsius. You get 180 degrees to capture the temperature envelope of Solid-->Gaseous water. With Celsius you only get 100 (we are talking whole degrees here. Normal human beings do not read their outside thermometer to the 4th decimal point, assuming they for some reason had one that precise).

I am not making a case for the imperial system. I think its poorly designed and a base 10 system makes better sense in almost every application, but the Fahrenheit scale was designed to give you a more fine grained approach to temperatures in whole numbers, and it accomplishes exactly that. Neither me, nor the OP I replied to were talking about the precision of either system. They are measures of energy, and any temperature scale can capture that energy precisely, it just may not be a neat whole number, and instead some 8 decimal beast. No less precise, just way harder for humans without calculators to work with and regularly use

Edit: mistyped the boiling point of water as the difference between 212 and 32 which is 180

The system was intentionally designed to have a higher granularity than the existing Romer system and was kept even after Celsius designed his system because of the higher granularity. That is what the person you replied to is getting at. There is much more granularity in what the temperature is (in whole values) in the Fahrenheit scale than in the celsius scale. Yes, you can depict any temperature of either as the other, but as a random example, 123 degrees Fahrenheit is 50.55556 celsius. Which is easier to read? The whole, Fahrenheit number

Yep, was going to reply, the date format actually has benefits (that were likely not intended at first when it was popularized). The format is generally accepted to have come from the way we actually speak dates in American English. We would say, "June 30th 2023". Thus, when writing in notation before the advent of computers (and thus before short form was popularlized 06/30/23) they would write "Jun. 30, 2023", written in the order it is spoken. The unintended benefits of this system are that is more efficiently conveys information as presented by @[email protected] .

Regarding the first part of his reply (regarding the Fahrenheit scale), I wanted to elaborate for anyone curious. The scale was created using a eutectic solution of water and either ammonium chloride or sea salt. The key part being the solution is eutectic, meaning it will stabilize its temperature. Fahrenheit took this stable temperature to be 0 degrees, and used the work of Ole Romer to help define more of his scale. He wanted finer granularity than the Romer scale allowed, and thus multiplied romers values by 4 (to remove the fractions of common points like water melting, and body temp), and then calibrated his scale to allow for an even separation between the boiling point of water (32), and average body temp (96 on his scale). This allowed him to easily mark points between those 2 known values evenly. The scale was then again readjusted to the modern version when it was observed water boiled near, but not at 212 degrees. They adjusted it so that water would freeze at 32, and boil at 212. All of this work (before the final adjustment), was before Anders Celsius created the celsius scale and popularized the freezing/boiling point fixed points method.

Then came along Macquorn Rankine who wanted to essentially make the kelvin scale (where a change of 1 Kelvin is = 1 Degree Celsius of change), but for Fahrenheit. So a change of 1 Degree Rankine = 1 Degree Fahrenheit. This is mostly only used by engineers/scientists when dealing with heat calculations. Being a process engineer in the steel industry currently, I have not yet come across it being used at least in my industry.

My girlfriend and I both have computers (i built her a gaming PC so she could move off her laptop). The games we have enjoyed are Halo (no local co-op), Overcooked 2 (local co-op available), The Escapsists 2 (local co-op available), and "Keep talking and nobody explodes" (only 1 person needs the computer other is reading material helping them). Games we play together with co-op but we need to be on our own rigs are Apex legends (if we can call that Co-op), Starship troopers Extermination, Deep Rock Galactic, Left 4 dead 2, Satisfactory, The forest, Terraria, and Call of Duty BO3 custom zombies.

Honorable Mention: Old School Runescape. I grew up playing this game, played it again in college and got my girlfriend into it as well and now we both play often. It can be played on PC or even has a very well made mobile client that lets you play the same game on mobile. (be careful, the joke is that the game is called Run-Escape, since it tends to pull you in like a crack addiction lol)