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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it

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Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

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What do you mean? The high today was 1.3 decicelcius where I’m at

Edit: decacelcius
- Aqarius@lemmy.world
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  You mean decacelsius?
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    I know that one! That’ a name of a 2D shape
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  Decagrades. The “centi” in “centigrade” is the prefix.

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