Comment by kijin
1 month ago
I don't think anybody loses sleep over the kilogram issue because, well, it's metric after all. A kilogram is exactly 1000 grams, so the gram is just as perfectly well defined. Nothing would really change if they were to promote the gram to be the standard unit of mass (not weight!) someday.
I am annoyed by it. We should be using gravs instead. Then there would not be this special unique unit with prefix as base unit.
I was actually unfamiliar with the history of the grave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_(unit)