• Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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    They have an international prototype sack of flour in an old missile silo in Kansas. Ultimately that’s what all the measurements are relative to

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      Computational biochemists are working with a crack team of mathematicians as we speak to develop an alternative standard which does not need a reference mass