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A much better article on this topic: https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot nytimes slogs through boring narrative befor
by stiglitz 4y ago
A much better article on this topic: https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
nytimes slogs through boring narrative before describing the actual definitions of the two types of foot.
- Epiphany21 4y agoThat one has a better title, too. I wandered in here thinking America had diabetes or something.
- moistly 4y ago> Since 1893, the legal definition of the foot in the United States has been based on the meter. Imagine all the pain we’d have saved just switching to metric back then, back in eighteen ninety-three. Sticking to imperial measures is an anachronistic cultural third rail, not a rational decision.