RE: Americans: Do you favor switching to the metric system?
December 30, 2013 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2013 at 3:56 pm by Jackalope.)
(December 30, 2013 at 3:35 pm)là bạn điên Wrote:(December 30, 2013 at 1:38 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: A really really small one, obviously.
Yes I should have stated that 'the meter's' not 'the meter' is the distance between the equator and the North pole since Its was the constant belonging to the meter which is the distance mentioned.
Anyway the distance from Equator to N.Pole is 10,000 KM
FWIW, that definition of a meter hasn't been used since the 19th century. It's currently defined as length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Under the modern definition, the Earth is 40,007.86 km in circumference, measured through the poles.
