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Badge of BIPM

Badge of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)

The badge of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) represents an allegory of science holding the new metre standard with its decimal divisions. The badge carries the inscription in Greek ‘metro kro’ or ‘use the measure’.

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