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Dedicated to Clifford Truesdell on his sixtieth birthday
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Carlson, D.E. A mathematical theory of physical units, dimensions, and measures. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 70, 289–305 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00281156
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