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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it

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Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it

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Too close to centigrade, plus centi- actually means 1/100th in the metric system.
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  There’s nothing special about 3.7°C, but there nothing NOT special about it either. <.<

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