Sure it doesn't but interestingly enough the article does not go into its roots. In France after the Revolution the Metrical or Decimal system of measures was introduced. The fundamental standard adopted was that of a quandrant meridian; This quandrant was divided into ten millions of equal parts, and one parts or divisions was called the Metre, which was adopted as the unit of length and painfully measured by triangulation by M.M. Delambre and Mechain by measuring an arc of the meridian between the parallels of Dunkirk and Barcelona!