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The fact that light had speed was well known as far back as the ancient Greeks. However it would not be until modern times that equipment was sensitive enough to deduce with a margin or error, something close to the accepted value.

In 1983 at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures an exact value for the speed of light in a vacuum was set at 299,792.458 m/s [See Link]

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