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Originally Posted by rcentros
A kilometer is no more "accurate" than a mile. Nor is Celsius more accurate than Fahrenheit. For practical purposes Celsius is perceived as less accurate, since the range between 32 and 212 is wider than the range between 0 and 100.
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Ah I thought you were talking about switching from page numbers to word counts, or some other system.
Though accuracy still applies. While 32F is 32F, and 32C is 32C, 32F is very much not 32C. Each system is accurate, but it's generally good if people observing something (temperature, or book progress) use the same system. Which is again why the hard sciences use
one system rather than whichever the scientist happens to like better.