> > I have argued this with many German machinists and they always
> > come back that metric is scientific measurement because it
> is a part
> > of the circumference of the world. That may matter to a
> map maker but
> > I don't
>
> That's very unscientific definition of metric system and
> makes no sense in reality.
I had to look this up. In wikipedia...
"Historically, the metre was defined by the French Academy of Sciences as
the length between two marks on a platinum-iridium bar, which was designed to
represent 1⁄10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the north pole
through Paris."
Which brings back memories of high school physics classes when we used the
40,000km as the circumference of the earth.
And the current definition...
"In 1983, it was redefined by the International Bureau of Weights and
Measures (BIPM) as the distance travelled by light in free space in
1⁄299,792,458 of a second.[3]"
I find it so much easier to measure distances with a stop watch rather than a
tape measure ;)
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