 | Samuel Mecutchen, George Mornton Sayre - Arithmetic - 1877 - 200 pages
...country in 1841. In 1866 its use in the United States was authorized by Act of Congress. The length of the meter was intended to be one tenmillionth of the distance from the equator to either pole, measured at the level of the sea; but it is in reality a trifle less. The higher denominations... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1881 - 446 pages
...measure for lengths is a meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of...equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 178. The standard meter, as defined by law,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1882 - 376 pages
...measure for lengths is a meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of...equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 178. The standard meter, as defined by law,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1882 - 376 pages
...measure for lengths is a 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 tne north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1888 - 392 pages
...measure for lengths is a meter; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of...equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters. 178. The standard meter, as defined by law,... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 440 pages
...from it the other 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1898 - 424 pages
...first place to the left of the decimal point represent ? in the second place ? in the third place ? in the fourth place ? in the first place to the right...are : The meter (m) for lengths ; The square meter (im) for surfaces ; The cubic meter (cbm) for large volumes; The liter (l) (lee'ter) foi smaller volumes... | |
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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. 
