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@mhoye Huh, that’s not by design, right? As in, when deciding upon metric will work, they didn’t start with imperial and say, let’s apply the golden ratio- and Smythe up the back didn’t recall the third and fourth digit correctly. Or did they? Because otherwise it’s a bit too neat, maths-wise
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@mori_au @mhoye No, the meter was originally defined as one millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole through Paris. Theoretically, of course, because no one had ever been to the North Pole at that time.