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Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?

• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
• From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:46:45 +0100
• Cc: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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John Cowan wrote:

[various things about various views of a 'kilometre' being impractical]
> That being so, there is no point in reifying them.

Yep - my intent was really to broaden the mind with some thoughts on 
what a kilometre is rather than necessarily to come up with the most 
*useful* definition :-)

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