• Pulptastic@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    You have to specify radians fahrenheit for that so we don’t confuse it with radians Celsius and blacken the thing.

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      11 months ago

      Probably can be assumed based on geographic context. People say degrees without specifying all the time. If you were in the US, you could probably assume a Farenheit radians scale unless otherwise specified, just like degrees are usually Farenheit outside of scientific applications. The same could be said for most other places in the world and Celsius. It would still likely be specified on things like cooking instructions, etc. Scale ambiguity wouldn’t be a big problem, since we already deal with that okay with “degrees.”

      Again, I cannot stress enough how pointless I know this is. There is no reason to try to use radians to describe temperature, and many reasons not to. Just saying the conversion between temperature degrees and “temperature radians” would be pretty simple and easy to adopt, given the framework already exists for angles. If there was any reason to adopt it, that is.