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Subject:Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 16 May 2002 05:18:57 -0400
At 04:42 AM 5/16/2002, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>Matric is the ONLY system which makes any sense. The meter itself may
>be arbitrary in length, but the other measures are all based directly
>on it.

Actually I believe the original definition was in terms of the earth's
circumference, just like the nautical mile. <g>

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