On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> A recent post mentioned the CGS and MKS systems. It SEEMS to me that every
> unit should just be based on the basic units, ie meter, not centimeter,
> gram, not kilogram, etc. Why do we have CGS and MKS intead of MGS?

It's those men in Paris who did it.

Peter
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