• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    TLDR: something like 2C+50 has a use case for showing habitable temperatures with only 2 digits.

    I only use metric units in my home on principle but I occasionally notice that temp displays with only 2 digits (such as on my watch and on the dash of my car) suffer some loss of resolution using C versus F, and there are a range of numbers (say, 50-99) that the display is capable of but will (hopefully) never be used.

    I still use C regardless, so maybe this is useless kvetching, but I can see this being a use-case for a trans-temp scale, preferably not F but maybe something like 2C+50. That would allow only 2 digits to express most habitable temperatures within a couple standard deviations of the mean.