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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 16 2014, @04:36PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 16 2014, @04:36PM (#17262)

    Err ... I just notice that I made a quite embarrassing error: The meter was of course based on, not defined as the length of the meridian. Indeed, it was defined as the ten millionth part of that.

    Otherwise the earth circumference would be just four meters. ;-)

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