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WE have received a communication from Dr. John Satterley, of the University of Toronto, with reference to Sir Napier Shaw's article on “Units and Unity” in NATURE for June 27, in which he complains of “the bewildering array of powers of ten” that hamper the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units and the practical units of electricity. Dr. Satterley makes the same complaint of other measures based on the metric system, which he admits is admirable for purposes of scientific measurement, but not for everyday use until it is simplified and the names of its units are shortened. He cites the milliwatt as representing a complication so intricate that nobody but a professional metricist knows what it is.
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Scientific and Practical Metric Units . Nature 102, 153–154 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102153b0
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