• Yeather@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, but does the kilometer have a cool origin like the mile? Checkmate math nerd.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah but earth is wobbly and imprecise so now we define the meter as “the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458th of a second”

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          3 months ago

          That’a a cool definition. I wouldn’t call it an origin though, that would still be the Earth measurement through Paris, which is also cool.