• Revonult@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    F has finer whole number resolution for temperatures typically experienced by humans. Obviously C can be represented by decimals, but I tend to think whole numbers are clearer.

    Personally I use C and metric for all my scientific work and F for representing outside temperature.

    Edit: Phrasing

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      I honestly can’t say I need resolution finer than Celsius for air temperature. So many other factors have such bigger effects on the perceived temperature (humidity, UV index, if the sun is shining, wind speed, etc) that a granularity of 1°F doesn’t make sense to me.

      Pool temperature, on the other hand, yeah, 1°F or 0.5°C resolution is perceptible.

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      8 months ago

      I responded a few posts higher with more detail about this, but after teaching myself Celsius I actually prefer the lower resolution. A change of degree Celsius has more meaning than a change of degree Fahrenheit. (Also many, though not all, weather sources are using the Celsius values anyway and then converting and rounding them to Fahrenheit, so you don’t really get the benefit of that granularity.)