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All of us are involved with standards every day whether we realize it or not. From the day we are born, we interact with standards. In the US, a baby receives a standardized health assessment score called Apgar after 1 minute. You are weighed and measured to standards. You wear clothes sized to standards. Eventually, you learn to read and write according to some culturally accepted standards.
Most people think of standards as an immutable set of definitions, or close to it. I would say the majority of them are like that. In electrical engineering, we have standard units for voltage (volt), resistance (ohm), and current (ampere) named after the respective scientists that have been in place for well over 100 years. As an aside, the founder
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