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Why no Rankine?
Does anyone use rankine outside of university?
No. You use Kelvin in everyday life?
I'm an engineer so actually yes. I prefer a unit system that doesn't require magic constants to be functional.
You should flex in the Celsius people like the metric people enjoy doing to the imperialists. Lol
We used Kelvin for some stuff when I was an intern in a lab