On Sep 19, 2:48*pm, Stuart wrote:
In article ,
* *HeyBub wrote:

1 meter = one ten-millionth of the distance from the pole to the equator
measured along the prime meridian.

Except that the french, being french, got it wrong as usual. It was
supposed to be but they measured it incorrectly!

I thought it was along the equator, not a meridian. The equatorial
circumference being a lot bigger that the pole-to-pole one.
I suppose I could look it up...but who really, really cares?