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You're right; it's because of the established meaning. If I were creating a writing system from scratch in a contextless vacuum I'd switch them.

One of those jokes that you laugh really hard at and somebody asks you "what's so funny" and you just feel ashamed at having to explain it in a way that's verbally funny.

eh, i'm sure periods suck but a coma's surely worse

temperature is so easy to convert check it out:

10 C = 50 F
20 C = 68 F
30 C = 86 F
40 C = 104 F

they're all 18 degrees F apart since a C is 9/5 of an F

I mean, wouldn't that lead you to spaces and commas being the actual choice

after all, both space and commas continue sentences in different ways, but a full stop ends a sentence, so why would you use it in this context to actually continue the same number

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A check? Hey grandparent, ever heard of the 21. Century?

You just wrinkled my brain.

That's one of the reasons why they make you write it in words I suppose. Ideally, we shouldn't base our writing system on an outdated payment method.

Numbers existed before checks. Was the formatting system changed when handwritten checks were invented?

Either way it can easily be turned into 1,001.00 or 1.001,00. That's why there's a written out form of the number.

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Fahrenheit is dumb as fuck

realistic temperature

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Burgerlander unable to conceive of decimal points

If you want a temperature range that is optimised for indicating the weather, you wouldn't use fahrenheit, you'd come up with something not based on "the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride"

Fahrenheit's range of temperatures goes from "salt water starts to freeze" to "slightly higher than body temperature". I guess if you live on the coast the salt water kinda sorta makes sense, but the only thing that makes it seem "realistic" to you is that you use it. Like really, your list of pros is that the numbers are positive - don't ask what happens when the salt water freezees - it's a "nice range" (what is that even suppoosed to mean), and that it's higher resolution, despite humans not being able to tell the difference between 72 and 73°F and scientific instruments using celsius or kelvin instead. It's all nonsense american exceptionalism.

I'm a chemist so I like celsius.

I know Europe uses the decimal comma. I threw Asia in there because I assumed they had mix of everything I guess.

I pick the nice round numbers and declare them sensible boundaries, then I convert them to the other system and remark! They are ugly numbers! Haha! Truly the superiority of my system is self evident.

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Celsius thermostats have temperature adjustments of 0.5° C. This is the first time in over a decade that I've dug up that memory.

Over 40 is deadly, 35-40 is very hot, 30-35 is hot, 25-30 is warm, 20-25 is reasonable room temperature, 15-20 is cool, 10-15 is chilly (threshold of winter layers), 0-10 is cold, below 0 is freezing, below -10 you need multiple layers, below -20 moisture will freeze to your eyebrows and eyelashes and you can feel the air sucking the warmth out of your body.