For decades, a foot in one US state could be a different length in another – but now the government is putting an end to the measuring mess. The news prompted jokes that America...gasp... could go metric. The international foot was introduced in America in 1959, but – for some reason – the land surveyors were allowed to temporarily keep the old US survey foot; and six decades later it’s still used in some 40 states. The survey foot equals 0.3048006 meters, while the international foot is shorter by three digits and therefore simpler – 0.3048 meters. While the difference between the two 12-inch measurements is miniscule and can’t be see
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