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They based the metre on a millionth of the pole to equator...yeah right....
We need something larger than the yard, because we are French

And now the yard is officially 0.9144m which is ironically close to the Euro at 0.88 pounds.
 
I’m a retired land surveyor. Believe it or not there is a US Survey Foot and an International Foot. The difference is very small but when converting large metric numbers to feet it becomes important. Then there is chains, rods and varas.
 
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