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It might be the best example of red-tape interfering with scientific measurement I've ever heard. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


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Not that it's exactly a scientific measurement - but my favourite example of that kind of interference is the official marathon distance. Changed from 26 miles to 26 miles, 385 yards for the 1908 Olympics in London so that it finished in front of the royal box, and never changed back.