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@judell Closest I got was here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/MAD Fantastic Measurement System: Issue #33 had the "Potrzebie System

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@judell Closest I got was here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Magazine/MAD Fantastic Measurement System: Issue #33 had the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures", sent in by a 19-year-old Donald Knuth, who later became a computer scientist. The base unit was the thickness of Mad issue #26, or 2.263348517438173216473 millimeters.

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