It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.
If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.
I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.
When people give a temp in C, I convert it to F like anyone capable of reading/writing should be able to do. I’ve lived in Europe but I haven’t internalized the conversion very well. I would think someone might be able to convert it the other way as well. It is okay to just say, “I don’t like the US and I want to be an asshole.” You know, if that’s the case. None of us have any idea, your motives are completely obscured from our discernment.
I disagree with the person you are responding too (I don’t think it’s impolite to use F), but to be fair C to F is “double and add 32” (technically 9/5+32), which is very easy to compute, while the reverse is -32 and then /2, which is generally harder (I think most people find subtractions harder).
are you this dense on purpose?
Heh.
It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.
If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.
I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.
When people give a temp in C, I convert it to F like anyone capable of reading/writing should be able to do. I’ve lived in Europe but I haven’t internalized the conversion very well. I would think someone might be able to convert it the other way as well. It is okay to just say, “I don’t like the US and I want to be an asshole.” You know, if that’s the case. None of us have any idea, your motives are completely obscured from our discernment.
I disagree with the person you are responding too (I don’t think it’s impolite to use F), but to be fair C to F is “double and add 32” (technically 9/5+32), which is very easy to compute, while the reverse is -32 and then /2, which is generally harder (I think most people find subtractions harder).