Determining how many ticks of a caesium atom were in a second, the conference used the most precise astronomical measurement of a second available at the time.
They started with the number of days in a year and divided it down. Compared to the atom’s ticking rate, one second was defined as exactly 9,192,631,770 ticks of a caesium-133 atom.
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