[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

[Rob Seaman]

On Sep 15, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Tony Finch wrote:


> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

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>> The only thing natural about the metric system is that humans have  

>> ten fingers and the quadrant of the Earth something approximating  

>> 10 megameters.

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> The latter was an artificial and deliberate design choice. Nothing  

> natural about it.


Some would say the same about the former :-)