On May 21, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
The metre was never based on the distance from Paris to the North
Pole. It was based on the meridian measured from the equator to the
North Pole.
Specified as being taken along a line /through/ Paris, however.
--
John W Kennedy
"There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old
dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold
that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets
it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll
swear I can't see it that way."
-- The last words of Bat Masterson
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