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[Mark Fraser]

In article <45F99417.30301 at gmail.com>,
   Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 
> > All American measurements are of these unusual division. The inch
> > itself is 1/12 foot, which is 1/5280 of a mile. Maybe not arbitrary,
> > but not very intuitive.

That would be the American units that were originally called Imperial
units? I do know some American units are different to those in the UK such
as the Gallon.
> Not to defend the US units, but hasn't the meter been redefined at least
> 3 times?  Which of the choices was a unit that relates to something
> intuitive to a human?

BTW it's Metre.