Assertion: metric system | /r/HasProperty | designed
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text: The logic of using the millimetre in this context was that the metric system had been so designed that there would exist a multiple or submultiple for every use.
text: The metric system was designed during the French Revolution in the 1790s, and rationalized the various systems of units being used in Europe.
text: The reason the metric system was designed as it was was to facilitate conversions.