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Old 03-21-2010, 08:25 AM   #608
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The Paris Meridian was abandoned in favor of the Greenwich Meridian at the Washington International Conference of 1884. I imagine the French weren't very happy about this, so in the discussions before the vote the British agreed to adopt the metric system in exchange. Sounds like a fool's bargain to me

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