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Only true boffins will be able to grasp Blighty's new legal definitions of the humble metre and kilogram

Kubla Cant

Why a kilogram?

Why do they define a kilogram as something other than 1000 grams? I would have expected that a rational system would define the fundamental units and derive the multiples.

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