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    Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 22:20:32 JST Josh Simmons Josh Simmons
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    • Charlie Stross

    @NewtonMark @futurebird @cstross feels like the correct answer here is to invent a whole new system of measurement to put those woke euros in their place

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      Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 22:20:32 JST Charlie Stross Charlie Stross
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      @dotstdy @NewtonMark @futurebird You know that pre-revolutionary France ran on an imperial system where the definition of "foot" was "the distance from the king's nose to the tip of his right index finger with arm outstretched", so that it changed whenever they got a new king? (Which was quite often, before indoor plumbing and the germ theory of disease.)

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      Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:52:18 JST Charlie Stross Charlie Stross
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      • Tor Lillqvist

      @tml @dotstdy @NewtonMark @futurebird Here's some: TLDR is, it was a mess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metric_system#Preamble

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        History of the metric system
        The history of the metric system began during the Age of Enlightenment with measures of length and weight derived from nature, along with their decimal multiples and fractions. The system became the standard of France and Europe within half a century. Other measures with unity ratios were added, and the system went on to be adopted across the world. The first practical realisation of the metric system came in 1799, during the French Revolution, after the existing system of measures had become impractical for trade, and was replaced by a decimal system based on the kilogram and the metre. The basic units were taken from the natural world. The unit of length, the metre, was based on the dimensions of the Earth, and the unit of mass, the kilogram, was based on the mass of a volume of water of one litre (a cubic decimetre). Reference copies for both units were manufactured in platinum and remained the standards of measure for the next 90 years. After a period of reversion to the mesures usuelles due to unpopularity of the metric system, the metrication of France and much of Europe was complete by the 1850s...
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      Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:52:19 JST Tor Lillqvist Tor Lillqvist
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      • Charlie Stross

      @cstross @dotstdy @NewtonMark @futurebird Any source for that claim (about measurement systems in France before the metric system)?

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