Re: We Went to the Moon on Feet and Inches

From: Jud McCranie (youknowwhat.mccranie_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:21:23 -0400

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:07:38 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous via the
Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer <nobody@cypherpunks.to> wrote:

>Some think the inch is irrational because it originally was the width of the
>King's thumb. Well, the meter is 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the
>North Pole to the Equator as it passes through the longitude of Paris.
>Both are "arbitrary."

Really? Which king? An arbitrary king? The distance from the pole
to the equator is fixed, the width of people's thumbs varies. 

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