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minus-squareUndearius@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoThis got me thinking if we defined the metre to be a more round number, like 1⁄300000000. It would shrink the metre by 0.6918mm. Now I’m curious about what implications that would have.
minus-squareSuccessful_Try543@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoπ would be equal 3. /s Seriously, any metric unit of a quantity involving the dimension “length” would also change its value slightly.
This got me thinking if we defined the metre to be a more round number, like 1⁄300000000.
It would shrink the metre by 0.6918mm.
Now I’m curious about what implications that would have.
π would be equal 3. /s
Seriously, any metric unit of a quantity involving the dimension “length” would also change its value slightly.