From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: distance from Easter Island to Chile
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 14:03:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fvl8fel5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n1onvp4.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-20 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-20 0:03 distance from Easter Island to Chile Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20 3:55 ` Frank Stutzman
2014-04-20 15:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20 22:39 ` giacomo.boffi
[not found] ` <mailman.19957.1398033917.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-21 1:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21 1:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21 9:45 ` giacomo.boffi
[not found] ` <mailman.19981.1398073560.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-21 10:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21 10:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-23 2:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21 2:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20 4:44 ` Barry Margolin
2014-04-20 15:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19905.1397975330.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-20 7:01 ` Barry Margolin
2014-04-20 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 10:26 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-20 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-04-20 15:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-21 6:04 ` Emanuel Berg
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