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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:00:35 -0800
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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.
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>
> it was the plan, but there's water, ice and other problems;  the earth
> not being a sphere.
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