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From: Donald Brownlee <brownlee@acm.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] /lib/units
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:00:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDD15C3.8010601@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <012a01c3c2a1$4041e790$89844051@SOMA>

Earth is an oblate sphere, no?

boyd, rounin wrote:

>>the metre/meter was 1/1000000th of the line running from the north
>>pole through paris down to the equater.
>
>
> it was the plan, but there's water, ice and other problems;  the earth
> not being a sphere.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-15  2:00 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
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 [this message]
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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