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Who even uses Celsius (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] CynAq@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

As someone who moved to the US later in life, I learned to use fahrenheit because there's no way to talk to anyone about the weather or cooking otherwise.

If you need to do the same one day, don't bother trying to convert in your head. Just learn the numbers conversationally. Familiarize yourself with how the weather feels with the number the weather app shows.

I can't convert at all but I can use both C and F in conversation because one rarely needs exact numbers anyway. You learn the ballparks pretty quick.

[โ€“] klz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I find the conversion between the two easy enough to do it my head.

This isn't exact but is close enough for conversations and 99% of my needs.

(Temp in F - 30) / 2

Examples

70F:
70F - 30 = 40
40 / 2 = 20C

10F:
10F - 30 = -20
-20 / 2 = -10C

The actual number is 21 / -12 but this is close enough for me 99.9% of the time

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