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Re: why is it that
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jan 13, 09:02 -0500
The French had many interesting issues about units of measure.
From: John Huth
Date: 2010 Jan 13, 09:02 -0500
I'm trying to recall all of them - there was a heroic effort to establish the meter via a survey from Dunkirk to Barcelona. There was the rationalization of the Celsius and Farenheit scale. Did they dabble in "metric" time at all?
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:47 PM, <aszy@mac.com> wrote:
Because of those darned Babylonians...
visit http://www.wonderquest.com/circle.htm
(of course... don't forget that the French, for a while had a 400 degree compass rose and zero went through Paris! Non! Sacre Bleu!)
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