What's a ft meter? Is it one of these:

You saw that too? LOL I guess editing and proof reading is a dying art. If Word doesn’t underline it in red, they let it go... SMH
In our modern, technologically advanced world, those things are not used anymore.
Due to greed, we are now consigned to two widths of shoe. Narrow and Wide. Sometimes there is only one width.
That's the unit of measure we use when we want to crash a Mars Lander.