[Boatanchors] SI units and the rest

[J. Forster]

As Zero Mostel said:  "Tradition!"

really, because the earth is the circumference it is.

-John

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> I'm curious as to why it isn't 1/(3*10^8).
>
> In a message dated 11/16/2010 11:39:45 AM Central Standard Time,
> w7qho at aol.com writes:
>> The original definition of a METER  was based on a measured standard
>> bar.  The standard was redefined in 1983 as the distance traveled by
>> light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a
>> second,   The standard kilogram is a a cylindrically shaped platinum-
>> iridium slug and is the only SI unit still defined by an artifact
>> rather than a fundamental physical property that can be reproduced in
>> different laboratories.
>>
>> Dennis D. W7QHO
>> Glendale, CA
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