Hi Michael,

On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 4:43 AM Michael Urban via ntg-context
<ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
> If you are going to introduce new units, you should at least include the 
> Potrzebie, invented by teenager Donald Knuth and published in the humor 
> magazine Mad Magazine #33.  The system is based on the thickness of Mad 
> Magazine #26, equal to 2.2633484517438173216473 mm.
> See the Wikipedia entry for 'potrzebie' for more information, or search for 
> suitable images.
>
> Honestly, I don't know how Knuth resisted putting this in plain TeX.

It is already there for a while, as dk.

/Mikael
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