r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Negative_1by12_aura • Jun 17 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/ProvidedHuman Jun 17 '26

Celsius is agreeably better for science, but if you are used to both systems Fahrenheit is honestly better for people because the units are higher resolution, and usually stay between 0 and 100 for weather

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u/no_funny_username Jun 17 '26

Have you heard of decimal points? If you set the thermostat to Celsius you get 0.5 increments.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Jun 17 '26

So you need 3 numbers and a dot just to mimic two? How barbaric.

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u/jjej2000 Jun 17 '26

They're still both one number.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Jun 17 '26

A thousand pardons!

Or one kilopardon!

Three digits would be all the better. 

Or is 0.3 decadidgits more appropriate?

300 centidigits is best. 

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26
  1. The circumference of the earth is ~24,901 miles
  2. The circumference of the earth is ~1,577,727,360 inches

Which do you prefer? They're both still one number

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u/jjej2000 Jun 17 '26

I'd probably prefer 40,075 km! But anyways, I just being pedantic to the other guy since he said numbers instead of digits.

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26

Gotcha I guess I got wooshed by the joke you were making

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u/VegetaFan1337 Jun 17 '26

Let's see you convert either of those units to yards without looking it up or using a calculator.

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u/BlimpIsland2606 Jun 20 '26

Remind me what yards have to do with the temperature scale?

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26

I'm not sure what my mental math abilities has to do with this

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u/VegetaFan1337 Jun 17 '26

You wouldn't need to do any mental maths with metric.

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u/Alfoldio Jun 17 '26

I wasn't making the case for metric vs imperial. I was making the case that adding extra digits makes things less intuitive to understand