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Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder
These guys went through quite some hardships to define the length of a meter. Good read!
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These guys went through quite some hardships to define the length of a meter. Good read!