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This is, as far as I know, the first usage of this constant as equivalent to the word 'gravity'.
The author adds:
Poul Anderson, writing in Tiger by the Tail in 1951, was probably the first to use it in the standard sense of one Earth gravity:
I think I first encountered this in Robert Heinlein's Double Star:
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