James Freysinger wrote in USMA 17261:

>The angstrom (my apologies for not taking the time to insert the proper
>diacrits) is not deprecated; rather, its "use is not encouraged". The
>angstrom stands higher in the brochure than the cgs units, for some
>reason.
>
>Jim


I suspect that the angstrom is not in Table 9 of CGS units because at 10^-8
cm it is hardly a CGS unit, and its use in the literature is more
widespread than the units of Table 10.

Joseph B.Reid
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