From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:56:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312142156.hBELuUl22380@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:02:21 +0100." <00f101c3c1dd$ee8df600$89844051@SOMA>
"boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net> writes:
> dunkirk (iirc) to barcelona -- 7 years of work (spanning the
> revolution) -- 'defined' the metre.
As in, the Meter (sorry, I'm American) was defined as some fraction of
the distance from Dunkirk to Barcelona? I thought it was originally
something like 1/10000 the distance from the equator to the north pole
or something that attempted to be equally independent of political
entanglements (not knowing, at the time, that that distance changes
ever-so-slightly over time). I suppose it's much better than the Cubit
(hey, the king died again! Time for a new unit of measurement!)
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-14 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-13 23:09 Rob Pike
2003-12-14 0:07 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 0:12 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 0:13 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-12-14 0:32 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 0:42 ` David Presotto
2003-12-14 0:51 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 0:54 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-12-14 1:02 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 5:50 ` ron minnich
2003-12-14 21:56 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-12-14 22:00 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-14 22:38 ` bs
2003-12-14 22:47 ` a
2003-12-15 0:23 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 22:33 ` a
2003-12-15 0:20 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-15 2:00 ` Donald Brownlee
2003-12-15 2:05 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-15 3:11 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-15 11:41 ` a
2003-12-15 5:11 ` mirtchov
2003-12-15 6:56 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-15 0:15 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 2:53 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-14 5:10 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-14 7:31 ` Rob Pike
2003-12-14 13:58 ` boyd, rounin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-15 9:08 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-14 5:26 boyd
2003-12-14 15:28 ` Russ Cox
2003-12-14 0:09 boyd, rounin
2003-12-13 22:05 boyd
2001-10-05 4:55 rob pike
2001-10-05 19:46 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-05 3:29 rob pike
2001-10-05 3:41 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-05 19:01 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-10-05 0:47 Boyd Roberts
2001-10-08 9:41 ` John Kodis
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