How were the units of measurement for distance created? More specifically, how were they decided to be a specific length?
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They were decided to be a specific length. The original decisions were indeed just arbitrarily made. But how long exactly “a metre” or “a foot” was, didn’t matter in the slightest. All that was needed is that when someone said “2 metres tall”, everyone else had the same idea of length.
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