Dave Smith wrote:

> Default User wrote:

> > That's why Fahrenheit is great. 0F is damned cold, and 100F is
> > damned hot. 0C is not that cold, and 100C is not normally in the
> > range of human experience (at least not for long).
>
>
> The handy thing about the metric scale is that 0 is the freezing
> point. Considering that it takes so much more heat to change a state
> than to heat or coll something one degree, it marks a significant
> point. Below 0 is freezing, above 0 is not. I think that most people
> are better able to distinguish a difference of one degree C than one
> degree F.

If you're doing physics problems, it's great. Not so much for weather.




Brian

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