• ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I like that Fahrenheit has a narrower range for degrees. 1C is 1.8 degrees F. So, F allows you to have more precision without the use of decimals. Like, 71F feels noticeably different to me than 64F, but that is only a 3.8 degree difference in C.

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      8 months ago

      But that also doesn’t matter because the granularity is meaningless if you don’t make decisions for differences between 71F and 70F

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        8 months ago

        Not at those exact temperatures, but one degree matters in in grilling meat, making mash for beer, making candy, etc.

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          5 months ago

          Where in the chicken I jam the thermometer makes several degrees difference. If you truly require that level of granularity whilst grilling, I’d wager reading a decimal figure isn’t the end of the world. Us normies can continue to bring chicken to 74 and call it a day

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      5 months ago

      3 degrees celcius is easily noticeable too so that’s a bit of a moot point. If anything, 1 degree celcius is much harder to discern and therefore having an even more granular scale is unnecessary.