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umanwizard
5 months ago
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A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection:...
Consider this to be an article about physics, not history. The article can be boiled down to one sentence: “the meter was originally defined to make pi^2=g”. This was a fun fact I didn’t know.
umanwizard
5 months ago
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Too late to edit, but I meant to say “consider this to be an article about history, not physics”.
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