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「 Skeleton Fristi 」
fristi@56k.dile-up.nl
the thing is, and inch and a foot are somewhat easy to judge by eye, so when someone tells you something is that many inches or this many feet, it's somewhat easy to imagine how long that exactly is.
that is somewhat harder to do with the metric system, because what the fuck is about 1 cm? what the fuck is a meter based on
that is somewhat harder to do with the metric system, because what the fuck is about 1 cm? what the fuck is a meter based on
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「 Skeleton Fristi 」
fristi@56k.dile-up.nl
so let's see what it is actually based on these days
> Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.
yea that's totally relatable, I can totally imagine the length of a meter now.
> Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.
yea that's totally relatable, I can totally imagine the length of a meter now.
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@fristi Foot, I get the logic since you can look at your own (or someine elses) feet to visualize, but what makes an inch easier to visualize than a centimeter?
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「 Skeleton Fristi 」
fristi@56k.dile-up.nl
@snep an inch is the width of a thumb (more or less). That's why it is alternatively known as a thumb.
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