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		fc417fc802 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? Celcius is eminently practical (similar to power of two prefixes). Absolute zero is completely irrelevant for day to day human life.

NetMageSCW 26 days ago [–]

Fahrenheit is even more practical for daily life, as it was designed to be.

account42 25 days ago | [–]

How so? 0 = freezing water, 100 = boiling water is at least more useful than more or less arbitrary points of F.

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