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Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by MereInterest on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:54PM (#12783238)
If anybody wants to read lots of commentary on units and their definitions, take a look at the data sheets for the Frink language. The ampere and the candela are two of the more irksome ones, as described by the author.

https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt

Re:The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory by ghaff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:27AM (#12785288)
Fascinating. Thanks! At one point I wrote a unit conversion program before such things were ubiquitous and I included a field that had information about the units involved. In service of this, I copied a number of older books on measurement units though I never got around to folding most of this into my program.