 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1881 - 446 pages
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1882 - 376 pages
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 388 pages
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 440 pages
...units, viz. : surface, volume, capacity, and weight are derived. 1. The length of the meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the poles, but subsequent calculations have shown it to be a very little less than that. 2. The system... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 186 pages
...defined by a platino-iridium bar kept in the International Metric Bureau at Paris. The metre was meant to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, but a slight error in the calculation has been discovered. The Latin prefixes indicate the denominations... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 214 pages
...denned by a platino-iridium bar kept in the International Metric Bureau at Paris. The metre was meant to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, but a slight error in the calculation lias been discovered. The Latin prefixes indicate the denominations... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - Arithmetic - 1897 - 370 pages
...ordinary business transactions. The standard of the metric system is the Meter, which was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface at the sea-level. The meter is 39.37+ inches in length, or it is a... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1898 - 298 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1898 - 326 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Education - 1898 - 296 pages
...known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one meter long.* In the names of the derived units of this... | |
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When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole. 
