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Comment by fc417fc802

17 days ago

Celcius is eminently practical (similar to power of two prefixes). Absolute zero is completely irrelevant for day to day human life.

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NetMageSCW  17 days ago

Fahrenheit is even more practical for daily life, as it was designed to be.

  • account42  16 days ago

    How so? 0 = freezing water, 100 = boiling water is at least more useful than more or less arbitrary points of F.

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