Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)

Almaran Dungeonmaster wrote:
> Originally, a meter was 1/10,000th of the distance from the northpole
> to the equator. So it was also a step on a scale...
I heard somewhere that more-originally it was conceived as the length of
a pendulum whose half-period is one second -- until (I guess) some
colonial officers heard of the idea, and said the French equivalent of
"I'm afraid that won't do, old chap."


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