From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:03:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvl8fel5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mwfguasr.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <83mwfgfnl0.fsf@gnu.org> <874n1onvp4.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397991827 8292 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2014 11:03:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:03:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 13:03:39 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WbpX9-0005uD-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 13:03:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbpX8-0000Pt-O1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbpWs-0000Pl-Nb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:03:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbpWm-0003a8-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:39922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WbpWm-0003Zz-B1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N4B00N00SVOVY00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:05:01 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N4B00K1TTGDGL60@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:05:01 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874n1onvp4.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97255 Archived-At: > From: Thorsten Jolitz > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:26:15 +0200 > > I think one of the two French guys who had the task to establish a > world-wide accepted meter unit as > > ,------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | 1/10,000,000 part of the quarter of a meridian, measurement (1795) by > | Delambre and Mechain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metre) > `------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > figured this out the hard way and became a depressed alcoholic because > of an unexplainable 300m 'measurement-error' in his triangulations. Well, I'm no French, although I do like French wines and cognac.