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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: sand *** SPOILER ***
Message-ID: <851@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 15:16:15 EST
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.851
Posted: Wed Dec  4 15:16:15 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Dec-85 07:56:27 EST
References: <2561@sunybcs.UUCP> <621@kitty.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
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Summary: Liter redefined

In article <621@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>	Let's look at `liter' first.  One liter is the volume of one kilogram
>of water at 3.98 degrees C (the maximum density point as a liquid) taken at
>standard atmospheric pressure, and one liter is damn close to 1,000.00 cubic
>centimeters.

To my knowledge, this definition was superseded in (around 1970?) by
making 1 liter by definition EXACTLY 1000 cubic centimeters.  And while
we're on exact conversion factors, in the USA an inch is EXACTLY 2.54cm.
I'd tell you more but the keeper is coming.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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