SI Units of Simile :: Mike's Blog — Technologist at Large
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The International System of Units, often referred to as the SI System, defines small number of basic units, such as the second (time), metre (distance), kilogram (mass).
However, for the popular media these units have proved too limiting for the magnificent descriptive powers of our journalists and broadcasters, who have therefore evolved an alternative set of units which are used exclusively in the hackneyed writing of, well, hacks.
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