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Originally Posted by Pisces
Yards are about 1/10th shorter than a meter. So take the metric distance in meters and add 10% to find the line in the table.
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Interesting issue since few people in this forum are used to metric system. I just happen to live in a country were metric system applies to everything, so it's feet and miles and knots that makes things weird. But you get used to it.
So what's a yard? It is legally defined as beint exactely 0.9144 metre. That is the weird translation to it, since it is so much uneven. But it is also legally defined as being 3 FEET, or 36 INCHES. So it is a unit that belongs to the anglo-american system.