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Message: [QUOTE="Smit-Dog, post: 696611, member: 25436"] Hey all you out there with 8th-grade educations.... I was reading that around 1790 2 Frenchmen came up with the unit of measurement called a meter, which they based on being 1 ten-millionth the distance from the north pole to the equator, based along the meridian running through Paris, France. As it turns out, we now know today (based on satellites) that the measurement they took in 1790 was only 2 millimeters off the actual distance. How did those crafty Frenchmen do it? Humans hadn't even been to the north pole back then. Really long measuring tape? [/QUOTE]