In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

NARRATOR: The metric system is a way of measuring things. So with length, the metric measurements are millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. A stamp, would be measured in millimetres.

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