• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    That is fair, but we don’t live on a planet like that.

    So my argument stands for this planet.

    However, lets look a bit closer at a world like that and it would be used.

    In daily life I doubt that people would say:

    Take it slow now, it is slippery, the temp just dropped to two hundred and seventy three point fifteen degrees out!

    People would probably say something like:

    Take it slow now, it is slippery, the temp just dropped to freezing!

    Or during the summer, peeps would not say:

    Perfect weather, two hundred and ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds!

    They would probably shorten it to:

    Perfect weather, ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds

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      2 days ago

      during the summer, peeps would not say:

      Perfect weather, two hundred and ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds!

      They would probably shorten it to:

      Perfect weather, ninety six degrees, slow breeze and scattered clouds

      You’ve almost got it! Now talk about the opposite problem where all the temperatures are at weird low values and 0 is in the wrong place