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		alberth on Aug 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection:... No mention of ‘meter’ being the unit of measurement, make this like saying 3:14pm is related to pi. There’s no correlation between a continuous number and a unit of measure. That’s truly apples to oranges comparison. g can easily be expressed in ‘feet’ as ~32.1 ft/s^2

mistercow on Aug 10, 2024 [–]

What do you mean by “no mention”? The entire article is about why this is specifically due to how the meter was first defined.

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