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_REF_/read.cgi?FILE=Locked/media/lab/measure/data.txt&EDIT=1&NOALERT=1&ROWS=24&COLS=4	heights.
Alcohol (ethanol) thermometer, in 10 units.
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1" = 2.54 cm;
1"<sup>2</sup> = 2.54<sup>2</sup> = 6.45
8.5"=21.59cm
11.0"=27.84cm
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<li>_WWW_onlineconversion.com/area.htm	Surface area
<li>_HTP_users.tpg.com.au/doktormj/kilograms2pounds.htm	kilograms2pounds
<li>_HTP_hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/surten.html	Water
cohesion/adhesion: capillary action due to electrostatic (van der Waals) forces.
_HTP_chemed.chem.purdue.edu/genchem/topicreview/bp/ch14/property.html	Meniscus
formed by adhesion of water to negatively charged oxygen atoms in glass.
<li>Hindu 500 AD invented zero.
<li>3 tsp (4 in Australia) = 1 tblsp; 8 fl oz (237 ml, 250 in Australia, NZ, Canada) = 1 cup
<li>Metric system: French Academy of Sciences after the French Revolution (250,000 units of measurement under the monarchy).
Enlightenment: science, logic, mathematics.
_HTP_wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~jagersaa/Werkmap/In_Measure.html	Units:
_HTP_physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html	International System of Units (SI):
first prototype meter kept at _WWW_www.bipm.org/	BIPM
was short by 0.2 millimeters: miscalculated flattening of earth due to rotation.
_HTP_parisvoice.com/00/july/html/feature/picnic.cfm	Picard
1655 astronomer measured length of a degree of longitude.
_HTP_archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/alder.measure/	Delambre and Mechain:
1792 measured the arc of a meridian from Dunkirk to Barcelona.
<b>meter=1/10 millionth distance from pole to equator through Paris</b>.
<br>1983: light in vacuum 299,792,458 meters.
<li>10 trillion cells (p. 106); 10 million olfactory receptors.
Average hair cell is 10 um - total 10**8 m long = 100K km. Earth circumference 40K km: <b>2.5 times around</b>.
Moon 384K km, Sun 150M km.
<li>Start as egg (zygote) in uterus. "Chicken or the egg" question misses the point:
zygote is the start of the chicken, before the egg, there was no chicken, there was mother hen, father rooster.