A much better article on this topic: https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
nytimes slogs through boring narrative before describing the actual definitions of the two types of foot.
nytimes slogs through boring narrative before describing the actual definitions of the two types of foot.
Imagine all the pain we’d have saved just switching to metric back then, back in eighteen ninety-three. Sticking to imperial measures is an anachronistic cultural third rail, not a rational decision.