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The Imperial system is more the arbitrary decision of long ago rulers, not based so much on generic human nature. The foot is called the foot because some king had a long foot that ended up being a foot long.

And a meter is one ten-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the Equator on a meridian through Paris, France. This makes more sense to you?

I have never traveled from the North Pole to the Equator on a meridian through Paris, France, and would have a hard time breaking up that journey into ten-million equal parts if I had, but my foot happens to be more or less the same size as that ancient king's. How about that?

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IIRC, the inch used to build the Great Pyramid is one millionth of the distance from the north pole to the plane of the equator. Just a hair longer than the British inch.