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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Measuring the French Revolution

Sorry for the silly headline, but since you guys have been studying the French Revolution, you may find it interesting that the metric system was adopted in the same place, at around the same time.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0508
Posted by Sridhar at 10:39 AM

1 comment:

Aadya said...

cool i never thought that way

May 14, 2008 at 12:41 AM

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