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[–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

the meter was originally defined to be one 10,000-th of the distance from the equator to the north pole, along the meridian that passes through Paris

edit: sorry, one ten-millionth, not one ten-thousandth. a kilometer is a ten-thousandth, and obviously a meter is a thousandth of that

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