• flames5123@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If it’s cold out, I say it’s in the 30’s. Everyone knows that it’s cold by that. I don’t need an exact number. I saw the weather in the morning and didn’t want to get my phone out to say “oh it’s actually 34”. Fahrenheit is just more precise for this.

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      3 days ago

      Your example exactly shows that Fahrenheit is not “more precise”, you’re literally dropping the precision. In Celsius you just don’t drop the precision, you’d say “around 12”, which gives just as much info