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Are You ‘Thinking Metric’?Awake!—1974 | August 8
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Both the Greeks and the Romans had a length unit called a foot—and it was about as long as a man’s foot too. The Romans divided this unit into twelve parts called unciae, or “inches.”
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Are You ‘Thinking Metric’?Awake!—1974 | August 8
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LENGTH
30.5 centimeters = 1 foot
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