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IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 22 hours ago
Napoleon was 5’6 back then, so by modern standards he’d be 5’10
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IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 22 hours ago
Napoleon was 5’6 back then, so by modern standards he’d be 5’10
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I don’t think height scales with inflation
it does scale with early childhood nutrition
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
The European inch and the British inch weren’t the same back then.
Rothe@piefed.social 9 hours ago
No such thing as an European inch. It varied from country to country.
Yorick@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Indeed the 5’6” height is in French foots/inch. One of the most infuencial thing Napoleon made possible is to spread the metric system across conquered land, which would make the british/French system confusion irrelevant if they got it. (Napoleon was actually 1m 68, which is correct everywhere that uses metric across all time)