• @[email protected]
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    01 year ago

    Ditto for the original meter. We sure are lucky that an approximation of the measurement is built into the name of the foot. It’s frighteningly European to have a measurement name that roughly translates to “measure”

    Hey, how many measures is that?

    • Bruno Finger
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      11 year ago

      honestly curious, as someone that doesn’t intuitively know how long a foot (in terms of measure) is, does it actually compare to the average size of the average foot? Like if you say something is 2 feet long, can you actually walk 2 steps and that’s a pretty good approximation?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Its a tad low if you’re barefoot, frighteningly close when you have shoes on. For men’s average shoe sizes.

        It’s a man’s man’s man’s foots world.