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AngloScot | 19:22 Thu 01st Jul 2004 | How it Works
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How were metric measurements invented, who invented them?
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Length was based on the idea that the distance from the pole to the equator was 10,000 km and you worked out all the smaller lengths from that. Of course, this value varies according to where you measure it, so now a metre is defined as the distance travelled by light, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458th of a second. You just need a really good stopwatch!!
20:38 Thu 01st Jul 2004
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The French, in the French revolution. 1kg is the mass of water of 10cm cubed.
10:48 Fri 02nd Jul 2004

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