@dgar This made me think of how much we celsius users take for granted that 0 is the freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point. Do the fahrenheit people have to remember some weird numbers for this?

@tomw yes.

@dgar @tomw
32 and 212, respectively. But it's learned very early, when we're information sponges. IIRC, I was taught this before or in the same grade (year) as learning multiplication tables.

@tomw @Fishercat
So many weird numbers. Like 63,360 inches to a mile, and 43,560 cubic feet to an acre-foot… like what?

@dgar @tomw Nope. I never learned those. I grew up in a city with a street grid. 20 blocks = 1 mile.

@dgar @tomw Or, I suppose, I may have been taught how many feet or yards (3 feet) in a mile, but it didn't stick. Miles weren't relevant to my daily life; knowing what the weather report meant was.

@Fishercat @dgar @tomw Fyi, USA / UK tsp and Tbsp only recently became standardized. The current agreed metric weight is 5gm per teaspoon, 15gm per Tablespoon. I do a lot of cooking and need to understand how much of something is, in actual fact, called for. Metrics ftw. 🖖🏼