James Vincent

And the French revolutionaries decided that they didn't just want to remake weights and measures. They wanted to remake other things. So for example, they got rid of the old calendar, and they created a French Republican calendar, which each month had 30 days in it. And instead of a seven-day week, you had a 10-day week. And there were three weeks in each month.

And then they even went so far as to decimalize time. So they got rid of the 24 hour clock and they introduced a 10 hour clock where each hour has 100 minutes in it and each minute has 100 seconds in it. So they were really very ambitious about changing the world and making it more rational. But of course, there was so much change that people got sick of it.

And then they even went so far as to decimalize time. So they got rid of the 24 hour clock and they introduced a 10 hour clock where each hour has 100 minutes in it and each minute has 100 seconds in it. So they were really very ambitious about changing the world and making it more rational. But of course, there was so much change that people got sick of it.

And then they even went so far as to decimalize time. So they got rid of the 24 hour clock and they introduced a 10 hour clock where each hour has 100 minutes in it and each minute has 100 seconds in it. So they were really very ambitious about changing the world and making it more rational. But of course, there was so much change that people got sick of it.

And when Napoleon took power in his coup, he got rid of most of the metric system because he thought it was just too much. He said it was tormenting the people with trivia. He thought they couldn't handle it.

And when Napoleon took power in his coup, he got rid of most of the metric system because he thought it was just too much. He said it was tormenting the people with trivia. He thought they couldn't handle it.

And when Napoleon took power in his coup, he got rid of most of the metric system because he thought it was just too much. He said it was tormenting the people with trivia. He thought they couldn't handle it.

So the mile was an ancient Roman unit of measurement that originally was milus passus, which meant a thousand paces. And, you know, that's it. That's it in the title, essentially, that they they had a unit which was a pace and they thought you measure out a thousand of them and it becomes a mile. Obviously, that's, you know, depending on your length of a stride, it's not really quite a mile.

So the mile was an ancient Roman unit of measurement that originally was milus passus, which meant a thousand paces. And, you know, that's it. That's it in the title, essentially, that they they had a unit which was a pace and they thought you measure out a thousand of them and it becomes a mile. Obviously, that's, you know, depending on your length of a stride, it's not really quite a mile.

So the mile was an ancient Roman unit of measurement that originally was milus passus, which meant a thousand paces. And, you know, that's it. That's it in the title, essentially, that they they had a unit which was a pace and they thought you measure out a thousand of them and it becomes a mile. Obviously, that's, you know, depending on your length of a stride, it's not really quite a mile.

But what often happens in the history of measurement is that even if you're the value may fluctuate. Sometimes the unit name stays the same because it's one that people are used to, and it just gets standardized in different ways over time.

But what often happens in the history of measurement is that even if you're the value may fluctuate. Sometimes the unit name stays the same because it's one that people are used to, and it just gets standardized in different ways over time.

But what often happens in the history of measurement is that even if you're the value may fluctuate. Sometimes the unit name stays the same because it's one that people are used to, and it just gets standardized in different ways over time.

So there is a Finnish unit of length that was known as the peninkuma, and that was the distance at which a dog's bark could be heard. And there's one used by the Sami people, which is the poronkusima, which is the distance a reindeer can walk before it needs to urinate. So these are units of length that you might think, oh, well, how would you ever know that? How would you ever standardize that?

So there is a Finnish unit of length that was known as the peninkuma, and that was the distance at which a dog's bark could be heard. And there's one used by the Sami people, which is the poronkusima, which is the distance a reindeer can walk before it needs to urinate. So these are units of length that you might think, oh, well, how would you ever know that? How would you ever standardize that?

So there is a Finnish unit of length that was known as the peninkuma, and that was the distance at which a dog's bark could be heard. And there's one used by the Sami people, which is the poronkusima, which is the distance a reindeer can walk before it needs to urinate. So these are units of length that you might think, oh, well, how would you ever know that? How would you ever standardize that?

And it is pretty tricky. But if you're, say, part of the Sami people and you're hanging out with the reindeer all the day and you're traveling with them, it probably would be a decent rule of thumb to be like, yep, we've gone three reindeer toilet breaks, so we must be just about there.

And it is pretty tricky. But if you're, say, part of the Sami people and you're hanging out with the reindeer all the day and you're traveling with them, it probably would be a decent rule of thumb to be like, yep, we've gone three reindeer toilet breaks, so we must be just about there.

And it is pretty tricky. But if you're, say, part of the Sami people and you're hanging out with the reindeer all the day and you're traveling with them, it probably would be a decent rule of thumb to be like, yep, we've gone three reindeer toilet breaks, so we must be just about there.