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Adding BaseUnits for a handful of quantities
"SingularName": "Dyn",
"PluralName": "Dyne",
"BaseUnits": {
"L": "Centimeter",
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Where do you look up these facts? I have no prior reference. Do you google each you are unsure about or do you have a goto-source? I found this one on wiki.

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Here's one for dyne:

The dyne is defined as "the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram at a rate of one centimetre per second per second"

Or try this:

Unit system:
centimeter-gram-second (cgs)

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Thanks

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"SingularName": "Poundal",
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I see there is a notion of foot-pound-second system and centimeter-gram-second system (CGS / Gauss).
I'll create a PR to discuss adding those.

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Indeed there is. CGS, FPS, MKS

@angularsen angularsen merged commit 44f8b73 into angularsen:master Mar 4, 2019
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Looks good to me

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