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  @RME: I just wanted to clarify the historical order of the events around the meter without any judgement. But perhaps I just misunderstood your post. The topic seems very emotional to you. So I just comment some -in my point of view - discrepancies. You do not like the meter because of its definition but you like inch and yard? The inch started as three barley corn in a row in the UK and is now defined as part of the meter same as yard and feet. You seem to prefer units based on phisical constant but prefer degree Fahrenheit over degree Celsius. In both systems you need decimals to describe the human body temperature. 96°F are too low and 100°F is feaver. I think we all prefer what we grew up with. One system is not necessarily better than the other. For me as an engineer the system must be workable and that the SI system was. BTW thanks for the word derive. It nice to see all those alternatives. But the definitions were necessary at a time when these constants weren't know. Before the introduction of the meter there were different length unit in almost each principality. Regards, Volker
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