[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> Hence the prevalence of radians in everyday use :-)  The only thing natural

> about the metric system is that humans have ten fingers and the quadrant of

> the Earth something approximating 10 megameters.


The latter was an artificial and deliberate design choice. Nothing natural
about it.

Tony.
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