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What did the French use to determine how long a meter would be?

Anonymous

∙ 9y ago

Updated: 8/21/2019

The meter used the size of the Earth as a measurement. It is 1â„10,000,000 part of one half of a a meridian. A meridian is a measurement of longitude.

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