Reply to post: Re: What is so sacred about 9,192,631,770?

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Re: What is so sacred about 9,192,631,770?

There would still be an eventual discrepancy because Earth's rotation speed is _continuously_ slowing down. There is nothing 'sacred' about the defined caesium standard, but it is very stable and accurate and easily reproduced by scientists all over the world, which is why it's used.

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