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Originally Posted by Lycoming-8
"Besides, metric is easier and makes more sense, especially when it comes to temperature: 100C is the boiling point of water, 0C is the freezing point. 212F and 32F are such arbitrary numbers."
The 0C and 100C degree points may make more sense, but Fahrenheit degrees are nearly twice as precise and for industrial measurements actually are more useful. Also what is so special about water or ice? As for metric in general, none of it really makes any more sense than the english system, especially when you consider that no one is using time measurements that are in any metric format and they are never likely to be!! Ditto for angular measurement, it is degrees, 360 of them. Not metric either......
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I agree with Craig that metric is much easier to handle. Everything is a power of 10. For example, 1 meter = 100 centimeters so converting between the two is a breeze. Yards, feet and inches are not as easy, especially when you deal with area let alone volume! Regarding water, what's not special about it? It's 70 something % of our bodies, and we were talking about measuring coolant temperature. For those running low antifreeze solutions it's especially important to know where the boiling point is. Precision is a non-issue. If you want higher precision than 1 celsius, just add a decimal point.
