The metric system was formed by the French in 1790,
and 117 years later the system was put on the Statute Book of
Denmark.
The system is a decimal system, which is rather easy
to use when you calculate.
| 1 meter (m) was in the year 1790 definated as
1/10,000,000 of the distance from the northpole to equator.
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