Equation 1 · Part 4 · The Last Artefact: Redefining the Kilogram
multiplication
multiplication
What this part means
Multiply the quantities on either side.
Its job in the formula
Multiply the quantities on either side.
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The passage around this formula
Inverting that gives the unit explicitly in terms of three fixed constants: . which the SI Brochure also writes as approximately 1.475 5214 × 10⁴⁰ times the quantity h ΔνCs divided by c squared [ 1 ] . Notice what the definition does not contain: any apparatus, any material, any temperature, any place. That is the point. “The use of a constant to define a unit disconnects definition from realization”, which “offers the possibility that completely different or new and superior practical realizations can be developed, as technologies evolve, without the need to change the definition” [ 1 ] .
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Multiplication scales one quantity by another. A dot, a cross, or adjacent symbols can indicate a product.
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