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  • The dol – A real unit of pain. One dol was two just-noticeable differences of heat, the scale ran to ten and a half, and in 1947 a woman in labour reached the top.
  • Kradian – Proposed unit of angular residue: the amount by which a radian's degree-count and π together exceed sixty.
  • Nautical mile – A minute of the world, rounded off: the unit named for a minute of latitude, which had to stop being one before it could be used.
  • Pi – 3.14159…, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which is the one length nobody draws a circle with. Also written as half of tau.
  • Value of one radian – The doctrinal claim that one radian is 57.30 nautical miles, obtained from 360 ÷ 2π.

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