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> I hate the Frech for that one, give us Grav back Out of curiosity, what was so great about the grave (besides the unfortunate connotations in English)? In a
by kergonath 4y ago
> I hate the Frech for that one, give us Grav back
Out of curiosity, what was so great about the grave (besides the unfortunate connotations in English)?
In any case, you have the French to “thank” for the grave as well ;)
> Where you can multiply and divide things and get new units without any other actions. One great example where algebra is very useful.
Indeed! It is a wonderful sanity check; I cannot count the number of times I found a mistake after some straightforward dimensions analysis.
- Ekaros 4y agoIt would be base unit without prefix... I'm forever annoyed that "kilo"-gram is in use. All others base or derived units have no prefix(apart from bar...).
- kergonath 4y agoAh yes. To be fair, they could have used the gram as the base unit. It might have made the definitions slightly less elegant at the time, but now that we have all sort of weird conversion factors, nobody would notice.