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Letter: Letter

Published 8 March 2003

From Simon Gay

The article does not mention the following obvious and elegant definition: the mass which, when placed one metre away from an equal mass, generates a gravitational attraction on each of them of G newtons, where G is the numerical value of the gravitational constant G.

However, I seem to remember previous articles on the extreme difficulty of obtaining an accurate value for G. Does that mean this approach is not practicable?

Glasgow, UK

Issue no. 2385 published 8 March 2003

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