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[86] [87]: 10–13 Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler's use of the metre in coastal surveying, which had been an argument for the introduction of the Metric Act of 1866 allowing the use of the metre in the United States, probably also played a role in the choice of the metre as international scientific unit of length and the proposal by the European Arc ...
The unit "foot" (Norwegian fot) was defined as 12/38 of the length a pendulum with a period of 1 second, and a "trade pound" (handelspund) was defined as the weight of 1/62 cubic feet of water. [ 5 ] Norway was in union with Sweden , and the new special Norwegian measurement system was very unpopular with the Swedes, being viewed as an act of ...
The unit of length was 10 7 m (the hebdometre, nominally the Earth quadrant), the unit of mass was an unnamed unit equal to 10 −11 g and the unit of time was the second. The units of mass and length were scaled incongruously to yield more consistent and usable electric units in terms of mechanical measures.
[1]: 137 For example, the metre, kilometre, centimetre, nanometre, etc. are all SI units of length, though only the metre is a coherent SI unit. The complete set of SI units consists of both the coherent set and the multiples and sub-multiples of coherent units formed by using the SI prefixes. [1]: 138
A derived unit is used for expressing any other quantity, and is a product of powers of base units. For example, in the modern metric system, length has the unit metre and time has the unit second, and speed has the derived unit metre per second. [5]: 15 Density, or mass per unit volume, has the unit kilogram per cubic metre. [5]: 434
The prototype metre was retained as the international standard until 1960 when the metre was redefined in terms of the wavelength of the orange-red line of krypton-86. The current definition of the metre is "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/ 299 792 458 of a second".
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Derived coherent metric unit without a special name: metre: length: Base unit: Multiple or submultiple of a base unit: microgram: mass: Multiple or submultiple of an SI base unit: Multiple or submultiple of a base unit: minute: time: Non-SI unit permitted for use with SI units: No specified relationship minute of arc: angle: Non-SI unit ...