As the name implies, scholars think that the foot was actually based on the length of the human foot. The Romans had a unit of measure called a pes that was made up of twelve smaller units called unciae. The Roman pes was a smidge shorter than our foot—it came in at around 11.6 inches—and similar Old English units based on the length of people's feet were also a bit shorter than our 12-inch foot. The 12-inch foot didn't become a common unit of measurement until the reign of Henry I of England during the early 12th century, which has led some scholars to believe it was standardized to correspond to the 12-inch foot of the king.
Curtis Strite
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∙ 14y agoIt probably came from the most obvious origin: the length of a grown man's foot. The foot as a unit of measurement dates back to 2575 B.C., although people did not begin to standardize it until the Middle Ages.
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∙ 15y agoBecause the thing you have attached to your ankle is about the same size, at least for the average grown adult man.
Cassidy Buescher
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∙ 15y agobecause Tami said so. because Tami said so.
Vertical Foot
The foot of the king in power or the local lord or the guy with the biggest army nearby.
it is millimeters centameters,inches, a foot, yard...................i think
tempertaure
The name 'foot' says it.
Chocolate
A long time ago a king wanted to see how long his foot was. His foot was exactly 12 feet long so he called that a foot.
the foot was a measurement of the king's foot, which happened to be 12 inches long. Thus 1 foot = 12 inches.
the 'foot' measurement was derived from the length of the human foot. The word ''inch' was adopted from the Latin word 'unica' meaning a 12th part. The early English, having no measurement of their own adopted the 'unica' from 'unus' meaning one
The measurement of my Dad is 6 foot.
Because a king very long ago wanted to know how big his foot was.So he called his servants to measure his foot.Is foot appeared to be 12 inches long.Since the king's foot was the first thing measure,he decided to call 12 inches a foot.
A foot is not a metric measurement. 1 foot is 0.3048 meters.
As a new measurement, they measured King Henry's (I Think) foot. This is known as a "ruler"
It is impossible to say how many feet is in a cubic foot. This is because a foot is a measurement of distance while a cubic foot is a measurement of space or volume so the two cannot be converted.
The Roman foot was a measure of the length of a foot. Investigation of its actual length of the Roman foot suggests that it was 0.907 English feet and 29.47 centimetres. Presumably, originally it was easier to measure distanced by using the feet, put one in front of the end of the other foot and continue that way. What measuring tools the Romans used once they settled for their measurement unit is uncertain.
Measuring "area" refers to determining size in two dimensions (e.g., length and width). The resulting measure is typically reported in terms of units of measurement "squared." For example, if a surface is one foot long and one foot wide, the area of the surface is called "one square foot" or "one foot squared."