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In this section, I have compiled comprehensive information on different modern systems of units.

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  1. 1.

    [WEBE2].

  2. 2.

    See [JERR, p. 8].

  3. 3.

    [SHUL].

  4. 4.

    [KIAN].

  5. 5.

    [BULL2].

  6. 6.

    [GIOR].

  7. 7.

    See also [GIOR2].

  8. 8.

    [KALA].

  9. 9.

    [LUDO2].

  10. 10.

    [MCWE].

  11. 11.

    See [HARR5].

  12. 12.

    BIPM, 1989: Proc.—Verb.Com. Int. Poids et Mesures, 57, 104–5; BIPM, 1990: Proc.—Verb.Com. Int. Poids et Mesures, 58, 95–7; Girard, G. Le nettoyage-lavage des prototypes du kilogramme au BIPM (The washing and cleaning of kilogram protoypes at the BIPM). BIPM, Monographie 90/1, 1990.

  13. 13.

    New Scientist, 22 September 2007.

  14. 14.

    [JENK2].

  15. 15.

    [GAUS].

  16. 16.

    [POPE].

  17. 17.

    [GRAF, p. 389].

  18. 18.

    New Scientist, 22 September 2007.

  19. 19.

    [METR2].

  20. 20.

    New Scientist, 22 September 2007.

  21. 21.

    Wood, B. "Report on the Meeting of the CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants". BIPM, 3–4 November 2014, p. 7.

  22. 22.

    New Scientist, 22 September 2007.

  23. 23.

    This system, often used in relativistic calculations, is named for Hendrik Anton Lorentz (1853–1928), a Dutch physicist, and Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), an English electrical engineer and physicist. Lorentz-Heaviside units differ by factors of √4π in the definition of the electric charge, as well as in the definition of the electric and magnetic fields.

  24. 24.

    Bureau International des Poids et Mesures. The International System of Units (SI). 7th ed. Organisation Intergouvernementale de la Convention du Mètre, 1998.

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Gyllenbok, J. (2018). Systems of Units. In: Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 56. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57598-8_2

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