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Letter to Prospect Magazine
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Pedantry about basic units... (I hope these URLs work.)
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6820&AuthKey=ffd48ae887d8c740d86a0d7354814dbc&issue=503
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6746&AuthKey=ffd48ae887d8c740d86a0d7354814dbc&issue=501
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I thought the gram was defined as a cubic centimeter of water at sea level at 4°C. What's this shrinking kilo nonsense?
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If you define the kilo in terms of counting actual atoms as they whoosh past, you simultaneously define Avogadro's number.
Question: do you count radians as units? Think carefully.
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Date: 2005-04-08 22:11 (UTC)Question: do you count radians as units? Think carefully.
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