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The sound of weights and measures

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In first-century China, emperor Wang Mang standardized weights and measures in his newly established dynasty. Noa Hegesh tells the story of sound as the basis for this standardization.

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Hegesh, N. The sound of weights and measures. Nat. Phys. 16, 1166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01077-z

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