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Who measures the temperature of their water boiling? Like, it's at 96 now it'll be ready to make tea in a few more seconds!
EU weather and thermostats have three digits and a decimal because people are sensitive to fractions of a degree C but not so much that you need decimals for Fahrenheit so two digits is all that's needed. Thermostat is at "twenty-two point five" vs "seventy-two".
Somebody told you that water freezes at 0 or that it freezes at 32. They're both arbitrary numbers. How do you remember your phone number or manage to live your life if that's a serious problem for you that 32 is slightly harder to remember than 0?
I see you're admitting it's a bother. That was the point I was making, thank you.
Well, does your thermostat have a decimal? Because all the ones I'm seeing on google images show decimals except the Designed in California™ ones where C was an afterthought anyway.
A whole degree F is detectable, but barely, a whole degree C is big enough you'll sometimes want to use fractions of it.
Imperial is just a better fit for everyday life, like GP was saying. That's why we're talking about everyday life here and you say 'well for chemistry zero is easier'. No shit, because you can't well argue it's better for everyday life.