Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>         Perhaps they could _change_ the definition to that, but I'm willing to 
> bet that it's off by a bit from the current definition.

  AFAIK kilogram *was* originally defined as the weight of 1 liter of water,
but for whatever reason they changed it to the weight of a specific object
(I really can't understand why).

  According to wikipedia, one liter of pure water at 4 degrees celsius (the
standard temperature for measuring SI units) is 0.9999720 kilograms.

  If they changed the definition of kilogram back to its original form, the
change would be less than 0.003% from the currently accepted value. Would
that be a huge catastrophe?

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