Comment by owisd

1 year ago

According to the article the 1/4e10 circumference definition came second

Wikipedia says the Earth circumference definition comes from around Copernican times.

Also my reading of TFA is that the pendulum definition was in fact a redefinition that didn't catch on.

I wonder how many numbers they checked until they arrived on this one. As to me it seems picked as something close enough for committee work.