Re: [Epic] Will it, won't it...

From: Drew Kitchen <DrewKitchen_at_...>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 16:57:51 -0500

At 07:16 PM 10/6/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Colen McAlister wrote:
>
>> One fine day in the middle of the night, Elias Tiliakos wrote:
>>
>> >HAVE YOU NO CONCEPTION OF METER????????
>>
>> AFAIK, the meter is defined by the speed of light, and is approximately
>> 100 cm long. However, this may be what you meant. What did you mean? :P
>>
>
>The metre used to be defined by the length of a metal pole held at a
>particular temperature and pressure etc in an Institute in France. They
>might have changed it but no one told me.

That meter, the original, was made so that exactly 10 million meters would
be the length from the north pole to the equator along the prime meridian
(or any meridian). Just a bit of trivia from our last trivia session.

Yes, we do get REALLY bored here.


Drew Kitchen
DrewKitchen_at_...
Johns Hopkins University
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 21:57:51 UTC