20 Apr
2002
20 Apr
'02
10:09 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
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Ahem. Kilograms don't measure weight. Newtons measure weight.
</PEDANTIC>
Peace... Sridhar
[1] If I want
to name the unit of length that's 1/1000 of a metre I call
it a millimetre. But if I want one thousandth of the standard unit of
mass, I don't call it a millikilogram :-).
> Also the kilogramm is, AFAIR, the last of
the basic units which
> still relies on a prototype and has no definition on some nature
It does so! Just the basic unit of nature they picked was not a real
basic unit - it was the earth! The meter was something like 1/10,000,000
the Earth's curumfrence going thru Paris and the North and South poles.
The Kilogram's (derived from the meter ) volume was filled with water
and thus you got a unit weight.