I thought this list was about implementing the metric system in the USA, trying to get the USA to accept and use metric, rather than invent fanciful new measurement units or redefining metric to suit oneself.

David King

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Euric wrote:

What is a nautical kilometre? I see no reference to this in the SI brochure. I was under the impression there is only one SI length unit, the metre of which the kilometre is a multiple of the metre. Did the BIPM secretly without informing anyone add a new unit similar to the existing one? Why would they do such a thing?

Euric

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Subject: [USMA:31328] Nautical Distances Re: Aristean-Metre Re: New time zones of the world



Amos, sir:

.....and the circle was divided into 400 grads, which means a grad on the equator (or any meridian) measures close to 100 km.....

This is what I proposed in my base contribution: The Metric Second (1973) published through Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi in their issue of April 1973; and arrived at my definition of Nautical Kilometre p.157 of the issue refers.
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