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		EA 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doe... The original meter (1790s France) was defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian.

literalAardvark 3 months ago [–]

Not sure if you're correcting me, but yes, that is "a" path around the Earth.

It's not the most aesthetic one, but it was at the time the most able to be measured.

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