RE: [boost] Standard Constants?

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-07-08 17:29:59

Paul A. Bristow wrote on 7/7/2000 4:36 PM
>(Physical constants, big G, speed of light etc are in a
>quite different category I believe.  They are much less accurate,
>never exact, but most useful of course.)

Just a bit of trivia that only interests geeks like me: :-)

The speed of light (in a vacuum) is now "exact".  In 1983 the meter was 
redefined in terms of the speed of light:  c = 2.99792458e+08 m/s (by 
definition).

See pages such as: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm for more 
fun.

-Howard