• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    100 to 1 relation kinda breaks the beauty a bit. But yeah, metric system is easy.

    It’s still convenient not due to some inherent laws, but because it was designed to be that.

    So people used to counting non-trivial things in non-metric systems might a bit better understand what they are thinking about.

    Also, eh, the obvious forgotten trait, 0 by Celsius being the freezing temperature (of some ideally clean distilled water, not really) is very convenient. 20 deg - normally hot, 15 deg - kinda normal, 10 deg - a bit chill, 5 deg - chill, 0 deg - definitely should wear more than a t-shirt, -5 deg - boring winter, -10 deg - crisp winter, -15 deg - good winter, -20 deg - how winter should be. The symmetry.