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Subject: Re: Metric vs. English units
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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In article <375@attila.weitek.UUCP> mahar@attila.UUCP (Mike Mahar) writes:
: An inch used to be defined as three barley corns laid end to end.  What with
: recombinate DNA and superior plant hybreds the barley corns have gotten much
: larger. I guess the NBS had to make some adjustments.

Actually, the barley corns haven't gotten that much larger, it's just that
the cumulative error over the years added up, and they had to schedule a
leap centimeter last month.  Now that it's September the inch is back to
it's normal length.

Larry Wall
lwall@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov