In article ,
Jay Windley wrote:
I've seen kilograms-force (kgf) gain popularity as a competing unit of
force. In my mind that's just revisiting the fiasco between pounds-mass and
pounds-force in English units...

Fortunately, I think that use is fading rather than growing -- it's a relic
of some of the pre-SI metric systems.
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