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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: degrees Celsius
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In article <32e5b0a8.5074246@news.mindspring.com>,
dgary@mindspring.com (D Gary Grady) writes:
> 
> A kilogram was originally the mass of a liter of water at a specific
> temperature. (In fact, for a while a liter was defined as the volume
> occupied by a kilogram of water at that temperature, which made the
> liter very slightly different from a cubic decimeter.)

Then they could have simply redefined the meter to compensate.
Was this at the time when the meter was still defined as the distance
between two scratches on some girder in Paris?  It would have been
easy enough to adjust.
