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The earliest known standardised system of linear measurement is the Egyptian Royal Cubit, which is known to have been accurately enforced from at least the time of the pharaoh Djoser in 2,700 B.C.

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. The modern metric system (modern meaning post-1960) is now widely used ... The first official adoption of such a system occurred in France in 1791 during the

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In 1799 in France was invented. This system based on criteria like proved too much land or water properties have been established and has been used. Today this system as measured in many countries in the world as a standard method has been accepted and use it.

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The metric system was first developed in France in the 1790s following the French Revolution. It was officially adopted as the country's measurement system in 1795.

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