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KAYLA: Let’s build the new hover train system from the city to the beach. ZACH: Yeah, they are 20 kilometres apart. KAYLA: Great, so we can make the tracks 20 miles long.Ta-da!Oh, what?That looks way ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...