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The period decimal point separator (bottom) is the single example in which Burgerland has a superior formatting system to Eurasia CMV (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by TankieTanuki@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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My reasoning is that the period is a "stronger" punctuation mark than the comma, and it should be used for the more important separation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

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[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

do you just not know anything about other countries? tropical countries have an even narrower temperature range so Celsius would give them even less resolution

I've never known a time when it's important to say it's 27 degrees instead of 26.5 degrees.

Air temperature matters even less in tropical places anyway because it's the humidity that will get you

we should all just use Kelvin and eliminate the middle man

If you hated Celcius you wouldn't go to kelvin, kelvin is what you get when you start with celcius and figure out absolute zero

absolutely based

cringe