The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau for Weights and Measures, or BIPM) is one of the three organizations established to maintain the SI system under the terms of the
Metre Convention.
... a Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the Goths), "De breviatione ...