Humans have always been able to count, but as we evolved we quickly moved to measuring lengths, weights and time.
We measure stuff all the time—how long, how heavy, how hot, and so on—because we need to for things such as trade, health and knowledge. But making sure our measurements compare apples with apples has been a challenge: how to know if my kilogram weight or meter length is the same as yours.
But the cubit wasn’t a fixed unit over time—it was about half a meter, plus or minus a few tens of millimeters by today’s measure. France, whose street cred had taken a battering in the Franco-Prussian war and was not the scientific power it once was, offered a beaten-up chateau in the Forest of Saint-Cloud as an international home for the new system.
Even then the new system was only used by scientists, with everyday life being measured in traditional Imperial units such as pounds and ounces, feet and inches. Essentially the spacecraft was lost in the atmosphere of Mars as it entered orbit lower than planned.
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