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[–] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point here entirely.

Is Fahrenheit intuitive? No, proven by the fact that it can't be used without prior understanding, as shown in my example.

The rest is sealioning.

Is Fahrenheit intuitive? No

no, and neither is any other numbering system, it's all arbitrary we already determined this.

proven by the fact that it can’t be used without prior understanding, as shown in my example.

as you try and apply celsius logic to the fahrenheit system in order to understand fahrenheit, incorrectly... While still ignoring my prime example here.