Hi Daniel, On 21/05/2008, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've tried to double-check, but I can't find a source. Wikipedia is your firend : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter It says : "1790 May 8 — The French National Assembly decides that the length of the new metre would be equal to the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second." So originally the length of a meter derived from the duration of a second, not the opposite.
