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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: SI units updated
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 07:48:43 +0200
Date: 2018-10-03T07:48:43+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pp1l7p$1egp$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d8c03c42-34dc-41d2-9cdd-9967f838b81f@googlegroups.com

Le 02/10/2018 à 23:43, Shark8 a écrit :
> Interesting; though I'm not sure what advantage that [using Planck's Constant] would have.
FWIW: the Kilogram is the only remaining unit defined by a physical
piece: the "standard kilogram" in France.

Given the accuracy of measurements nowadays, the tiny sublimation of
iridium became non-neglectible... An absolute standard was needed.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-03  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-29 20:51 SI units updated AdaMagica
2018-10-01 19:24 ` Shark8
2018-10-02 11:26   ` AdaMagica
2018-10-02 14:36     ` Shark8
2018-10-02 20:12       ` AdaMagica
2018-10-02 21:43         ` Shark8
2018-10-03  5:48           ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2018-10-03  7:21           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-03 14:40             ` Shark8
2018-10-03 17:33             ` AdaMagica
2018-10-03 19:47               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-03 17:37           ` AdaMagica
2018-11-05  8:47   ` reinert
2018-11-15 11:46     ` AdaMagica
2018-11-05 14:10 ` Simon Wright
2018-11-15 12:41   ` AdaMagica
2018-11-15 16:13     ` Simon Wright
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