• Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    It is better because it uses 2 times water as reference point.

    Not one thing and then a completely different one.

    We could for example set the 0 degrees at the freezing point of alcohol and 100 at the boiling point.

    Or 0 at the boiling point of argon and 100 at the temperature it turns into plasma.

    Both of these fictional scales are better than Fahrenheit.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      You didn’t answer why that makes it better. What functionality does it give us that we don’t have if we use two reference points from different things. I’m pretty confident there aren’t any. This is proven especially true because that’s not how Celsius is defined anymore, and it didn’t lose any functionality. It sounds more “pure”, or whatever, but that doesn’t make it better. Do you have an actual reason that it improves its functionality?