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julie_m · 13th Sep 2017, 3:10 pm

The other connection between the metre and the second is that a pendulum 1m. long takes -- as near as d

n it is to swearing -- 1 second to swing from side to side. Possibly useful if you are ever stuck on a desert island and need to make yourself a set of measurement standards from scratch

13th Sep 2017, 3:10 pm	#43
julie_m Dekatron Join Date: May 2008 Location: Derby, UK. Posts: 7,735	Re: An opportunity to be SMUG The other connection between the metre and the second is that a pendulum 1m. long takes -- as near as dn it is to swearing -- 1 second to swing from side to side. Possibly useful if you are ever stuck on a desert island and need to make yourself a set of measurement standards from scratch __________________ If I have seen further than others, it is because I was standing on a pile of failed experiments.