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Because you have to start somewhere - you can't derive ALL units. You have to have SOME fundamental units.

For example, 1 ampere = 1 coulomb / second. That also means that 1 coulomb = 1 ampere x 1 second, or that 1 second = 1 coulomb / 1 ampere. In other words, you can derive any of the three units from the other two. In practice, for base units, units were chosen that can be measured with great precision.

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The ampere is not a 'fundamental' unit; it is a base unit. The ampere was chosen as a base unit, because it relates electrical units to mechanical units, being defined, as it is, in terms of the force (which itself is defined in terms of base units) between current-carrying conductors.

You might be getting confused because, quite wrongly, the ampere is often defined as a 'coulomb per second'. While it is certainly equivalent to a coulomb per second, it is not definedin this way.

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