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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: N.B.S. Time Service
Message-ID: <65200001@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 88 00:27:59 GMT
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Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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> 300,000 mi/sec???

The speed of light is defined to be exactly

	18737028625
	-----------  miles per second
	   100584

This is approximately 186282.39705122087011850791378
miles/second or 299,792,458 meters per second exactly.

> When did this happen? > Nobody ever tells me anything.

We decided to change it one morning while you were asleep.