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            Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1556764,00.html

>>The second is now defined not as the a fraction of a day, and
>>therefore an even smaller fraction of a year. It is 9,192,631,770
>>periods of radiation from a caesium atom in its ground state.

Looks like this reporter's idea of the current definition of the
second is a few years old too...

Warner

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