Dear Louis,

Thanks for that.

By the way, do you know of any movement or gathering that was held in France
in about 1304. I've seen reference to such a conference, many years ago, but
unfortunately I can no longer find the original source.

Thanks,

Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia

on 2002-07-16 14.56, Louis JOURDAN at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 11:31 +1000 16/07/2002, Pat Naughtin wrote:
>> 'The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation
>> corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the
>> ground state of the caesium 133 atom. This definition refers to a caesium
>> atom in its ground state at a temperature of 0 K.' (The International System
>> of Units, BIPM 1998)
> 
> Please note that this definition was adopted in 1967 (13th CGPM).
> 
> Louis
> 

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