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I REGRET to say my recent article on the Giorgi system1 contained a mistake, inexcusable I fear in the case of a pupil of Maxwell. In the evaluation of K0 I used electromagnetic instead of electrostatic units. The value I gave needs dividing by v2, the square of the velocity of wave propagation. If we take 3 × 1010 cm. per sec. as the value of v, then K0 becomes and this is the value used by Prof. Giorgi.
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NATURE, 133, 597, April 21, 1934.
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GLAZEBROOK, R. The Giorgi System of Units. Nature 133, 874 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133874c0
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