• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    CGS system (centimeter grams second and calories).

    For the pleasure to be pedantic, the proper CGS energy unit is the erg, not calorie.

    But indeed, even in France, home of the metric, you’ll find people using some customary unit (Calories, or pounds) and even some US units like inches for computer-screen and feet for powered airplanes altitude, and then a shit ton of approximation