The stick itself was developed and in mass production by 14,000 BC, but
the system of marking it with the metric scale was not added until the late
18th Century.
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The meter stick was invented in 1795 during the French Revolution as part of the metric system. It was created as a standard unit of length equal to one meter, which was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.
A meter stick typically measures one meter in length.
A standard meter stick is one meter long, so there are one meter in a meter stick.
There are 100 centimeters in a meter stick, as a meter is equal to 100 centimeters.
A meter is 40 inches which is 3 feet and 4 inches (100 cm)
1 meter = 1000 millimeters 1 millimeter = 0.001 meter