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Odd Bodkin wrote:

> Do you think there is something fundamental about measuring distance in
> terms of a fraction of the distance between equator and pole?

That is no longer being done since 1960 already.  In fact, the metre – which 
you are alluding to – is now defined in terms of the speed of light, not 
vice-versa.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Timeline>

> Or something fundamental about measuring time in terms of some Babylonian
> magic number fraction of the length of a day?

That, too, is no longer being done since *ages* past already.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#History_of_definition>
 
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E=M The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-27 11:12 -0700
  Re: E=M "David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-27 11:15 -0700
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  Re: E=M Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-05-31 14:41 +1000
    Re: E=M Serg io <invalid@invalid.com> - 2017-05-31 08:11 -0500
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            Re: E=M Prudence Youngs <usue@weuem.ge> - 2017-06-04 11:53 +0000
            Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-05 08:58 +1000
          Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-04 13:25 +0000
            Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-04 06:43 -0700
              Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-04 21:21 +0000
                Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-05 09:05 +1000
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-05 09:29 -0500
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-05 09:56 -0700
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-05 17:03 +0000
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-05 10:31 -0700
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-05 20:14 +0000
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                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-05 22:13 +0000
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 00:09 -0700
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 00:17 -0700
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 14:13 +0000
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 08:40 -0700
                Re: E=M JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 14:56 -0700
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 22:57 -0700
                Re: E=M Gerald Kelleher <kelleher.gerald@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 02:16 -0700
                Re: E=M Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-06-06 16:32 +0200
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 08:15 -0700
                Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-07 11:41 +1000
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 03:04 +0000
                Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-07 15:02 +1000
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-07 12:19 -0500
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-07 10:45 -0700
                Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-08 18:29 +1000
                Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-08 12:17 -0500
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 23:00 -0700
                Re: E=M JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 14:52 -0700
                Re: E=M mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2017-06-06 22:55 -0700
            Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-05 09:00 +1000
              Re: E=M Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2017-06-04 23:13 +0000
                Re: E=M "HGW..." <hgw@....> - 2017-06-05 11:10 +1000
      Re: E=M Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-06-01 01:49 +0200

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