From: Raymond Mercier (raymondM@compuserve.com)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 12:46:29 EDT
At some time in the 70's when I was at conference to mark the centenary of
the Greenwich meridian I learned that the French agreed to give up the Paris
meridian if the British agreed to go metric-and that was over a century ago
!
Maybe the U.S. could be bribed to go metric if they were allowed to have
Washington as the standard meridian.
Raymond Mercier
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