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There are other kinds of units, too, including a system called
electromagnetic units. My thesis advisor at Cal, Mike Tinkham, used to
refer to the system he called "GOU", or "God's Own Units". The late
Bob Karplus taught a graduate E & M course in rationalized CGS units!
I don't much like SI (I guess I am an atheist convert to GOU) but it
does have the virtue that it allows students to concentrate on learning
the concepts of physics rather than becoming obsessed with remembering
that there are 300 volts in a statvolt!