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- From: clive@x.co.uk (Clive Feather)
- Subject: Re: ISO paper sizes
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- References: <1993Jan4.170125.3951@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <19930110.007@erik.naggum.no> <8582@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:29:53 GMT
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- In article <8582@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
- > Quoting from my basic reference on units %, subject yard:
- > "... In England until 1963 the Imperial Standard Yard was the legal
- > unit of length. It was defined in the Weights and Measures Act of
- > 1878 as the distance between two points on a specified metal bar.
- > In 1963 the yard was redefined as being equal to 0.9144 metres
- > exactly.
- > --
- > % H.G.Jerrard & D.B.McNeill, A Dictionary of Scientific Units. Science
- > Paperbacks, Chapman & Hall Ltd., London, 1966.
-
- Your basic reference is wrong. The Weights and Measures Act 1948 [not
- "of 1948"] defined the yard to be 3600/3937 of the metre, whose
- definition I forget. The 1963 [?, I thought it was 1967] Act redefined
- it to 0.9144 metres, and defined the metre using the same wording as the
- SI definition. Later Acts have kept the definition of the metre in step
- with SI.
-
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