Ashrem
Oh Wise One
I was in middle school when Canada switched to the metric system (i.e., degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius). Ever since then, I've been really good at converting temperatures on the fly between the two, and have been pretty comfortable with either. This morning, when I clicked on our national weather service's site to switch out the temps (as I sometimes do to avoid doing math when I'm going to post in chat to the mostly Americans), was the first time that I looked at the Fahrenheit numbers and they didn't actually make sense to me. After 40 years, I finally found it easier to feel what -5C means than what 23F means.
I still can't instinctively understand liters per hundred kilometers vs miles per gallon (despite never having driven a car when gas was sold by the gallon), but maybe in another 40 years....
I still can't instinctively understand liters per hundred kilometers vs miles per gallon (despite never having driven a car when gas was sold by the gallon), but maybe in another 40 years....