From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.trivia
Title: Re: What Is An OUNCE?
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.420
Posted: Wed May 19 11:08:29 1982
Received: Thu May 20 03:27:48 1982
References: sytek.168

Just this morning read in Scientific American (Science and the Citizen)
that the meter is in danger of being redefined as a derived unit.
They (always the ominous they) want to redefine the meter as a specific
fraction of the distance light travels in a second, reducing the number
of fundamental units by one.  (And, incidently, exactly defining the
speed of light - any further refinements would change the unit of length,
not the speed of light).
=Spencer  (harpo!utah-cs!thomas)
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