James Wilkinson Sword submitted this idea :
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:25:40 +0100, FromTheRafters
wrote:

James Wilkinson Sword wrote on 10/22/2016 :
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 20:08:13 +0100, FromTheRafters
wrote:

Bod wrote on 10/22/2016 :
Anu ideas why the USA hasn't changed to the Centigrade system?
Only a handful of countries use fahrenheit today.

Centigrade makes a much more logical system.
Centigrade: 0C is freezing and 100C is boiling.

It should be measured in 'grads' not degrees then. At least Fahrenheit
has 180 degrees between freezing and boiling which makes circular
calculations easier.

Actually, the history of the Fahrenheit scale has many twists and turns
before it settled in to what it is today.

WTF is a circular calculation?

You wouldn't understand.

Decimal is always easier to calculate things
in.

No it isn't.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5977095/why-w...ounting-system

Changing the entire counting system would be impossible. So everything
should be based on how we do count.

There's no need to change the entire counting system just to prove that
"Decimal is always easier to calculate things in" is a false statement.

There are many examples of how different calculations can be carried
out more easily in other bases than they can in base ten.