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The relationship between the meter and the millimeter is constant however. Prior to this definition, the meter was based on the length of a prototype meter bar. In , the meter has been re-defined based on the changes made to the definition of a second. Definition: A foot symbol: ft is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.
A foot was defined as exactly 0. One foot contains 12 inches, and one yard is comprised of three feet. The various lengths were due to parts of the human body historically being used as a basis for units of length such as the cubit, hand, span, digit, and many others, sometimes referred to as anthropic units.
This resulted in the measurement of a foot varying between mm and mm in the past compared to the current definition of While the United States is one of the few, if not only, countries in which the foot is still widely used, many countries used their own version of the foot prior to metrication, as evidenced by a fairly large list of obsolete feet measurements.
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