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Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile |
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Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:03:02 +0300 |
> From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:26:15 +0200
>
> I think one of the two French guys who had the task to establish a
> world-wide accepted meter unit as
>
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> | 1/10,000,000 part of the quarter of a meridian, measurement (1795) by
> | Delambre and Mechain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre)
> `-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> figured this out the hard way and became a depressed alcoholic because
> of an unexplainable 300m 'measurement-error' in his triangulations.
Well, I'm no French, although I do like French wines and cognac.
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