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I AGREE with your correspondent, Mr. R. B. Hayward (NATURE, vol. xxxv. p. 604), in holding that names for the dynamical units are of less importance than a convenient notation for them. To invent names for the pound-foot-second units may be helpful to beginners; but it is a small matter compared with a notation which completely specifies the mode of dependence of each unit upon the pound, foot, and second; and it is still more so when compared with a general notation which will serve for any system of units.
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MACFARLANE, A. Units of Weight, Mass, and Force. Nature 36, 174–175 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036174c0
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