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From: atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler)
Subject: Re: New IEC proposal: 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes
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>In article <32DBC1D4.23D8@cs.purdue.edu>,
>
>> There are exactly seven fundamental "base units" in SI:
>> 
>>   meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole, candela
                              ^^^^^^
>> 
>> You can express all other quantities using these base units. For
>> practical convenience, a number of "derived units with special names"
>> has been defined in SI,

I thought the base unit was the coulomb, since it can be more simply
defined.  (i.e. the charge on N electrons)
