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croteyesterday at 1:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

We should just redefine it to make the speed of light a nice even 300.000 km/s - we are so close already!


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SAI_Peregrinusyesterday at 2:56 PM

But it's already a nice round 10m/s in base 299,792,458.

jasomillyesterday at 6:25 PM

Why stop there when we could just as easily redefine it to be 1 (new base unit of length)/second or 1 meter/(new base unit of time)?