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    Re: the metric system —Lester Witter
   .... (...) I recently had to do somethin involving metirc conversion and was told that at some point the inch was redefind by the international standards people to be exactly 2.54 cm. (...) .... I thought that the meter was defined in terms of the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: the metric system —Lindsay Frederick Braun
   (...) Really? Cool! Maybe the Euro will be NGL 2.20 one day, and not NGL 2.203. ;) I know, immaterial, given that the Guilder shall cease to exist on 1 March 2002. (...) n.b.: 1872 was the actual Conference that made one particular meter bar the (...) (24 years ago, 1-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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