• wombat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The original definition of a meter was 1/10000000 of the distance from the equator to the poles, hence the circumference of Earth being 40000km.

    • uralsolo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      That’s awful. Nobody on the planet has any frame of reference for the distance from the equator to the poles. The measurements used by people in the real world should be based on something they encounter frequently.