• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Yes, as I said repeatedly, the math is easier which is the reason. If you didn’t include the offset in the calculations, you wouldn’t lose precision, you’d just be wrong.

    I’m at a loss as to what you don’t understand.

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      8 months ago

      I suspect you may have mistaken me for the first poster in this comment chain. I never disagreed with your statement that precision is not a factor, I was clarifying only that they are not totally interchangeable. Interchangeable in relative measure yes, easy to convert in absolute measure yes, equally precise yes, but they are different things, albeit extremely similar.

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        8 months ago

        I literally used the term precision in every post, it’s what my initial is about, and you’re just now telling me that’s not what you were talking about? Also my first post I did not say they were perfectly interchangeable, I pointed out there is no loss of precision, and explicitly noted that you have to include the offset.

        So now I’m confused as to why you chimed in at all.

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          8 months ago

          you’re just now telling me that’s not what you were talking about?

          No? I said as much in my very first comment.

          But yes, the sizes of the units are the same.

          And technically, that’s only the case as of 2019, when Celsius was decoupled from the properties of water. Before that, kelvin was more precise, since it did not depend on controlling for pressure. Before 2019, there were precision discrepancies between K and °C.