Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site drivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!amdahl!drivax!landauer From: landauer@drivax.UUCP (Doug Landauer) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Standardization (of the meter) Message-ID: <102@drivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 16:27:33 EST Article-I.D.: drivax.102 Posted: Thu Feb 28 16:27:33 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:39:52 EST Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA Lines: 12 Norman Diamond says: > ... the metre is 1/10,000,000 of an old estimate of the distance > from the North Pole to the Equator (I do not know along which longitude). It was the longitude through the birthplace of chauvinism: Paris, of course! ------- Doug Landauer: ...[ ihnp4 | mot | ucscc | amdahl ] !drivax!landauer Remember the motto of the French Revolution: Cruelte, Brutalite, Extremite! PS: Bonus question -- where did *you* first hear that particular perversion of that motto? (I ask because I've forgotten.)