• Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Sounds funny but really, why would a weight or length measurement start with ≠0?? Like “size of the dick or prince Charles”?

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      1 year ago

      But that argument would go for temperature as well. Yet, here we are with the most commonly used ones having zero as wey more than the “nothing”-level.

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        1 year ago

        Zero comes from experience, at least in Celsius. Its semi-scientifical as water is a pretty big part of our world. For our life and all it is pretty much the turning point, isnt it? But of course it could also be 50 or so, as below is possible