The metre on the other hand was a "theoretical" distance promoted by the French based on the division of a distance that, as history has determined, they got wrong in the first place, and because the French could not "get their heads" around anything very complicated, they divide or multiplied everything by the number 10.
How do you explain then than the big (very big) majority of the world uses the metric system? even the english converted to metric years ago.
This imperial system is a joke. I work with engineers who have to use conversion books and tables. A joke...
Remember the mars probe which crashed years ago? a misuderstanding feet/meters. A joke...
If there is one thing which CANNOT be criticized, it is the metric system. Every scientific person will tell you that.
