The European inch and the British inch weren’t the same back then.
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djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoI don’t think height scales with inflation
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Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
No such thing as an European inch. It varied from country to country.
Yorick@piefed.social 2 weeks 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)
it does scale with early childhood nutrition