Originally, a meter was defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the equator and the North Pole. The circumference of the earth is now 40,075.017 km inst

Originally, a meter was defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the equator and the North Pole. The circumference of the earth is now 40,075.017 km instead of 40,000 km but it was a pretty good estimate for 1795.