When and who invented the metric system?

Question

i need a definite answer! i've been looking around for a while and i still can't find a definite answer on who invented it and when it was invented.

i've already tried wikipedia, so please don't tell me to try it or to google it. it always comes up with different answers.

Answer 1

METER (and the METRIC SYSTEM)

The metric system was invented in France. In 1790, the French National Assembly directed the Academy of Sciences of Paris to standardize the units of measurement. A committeee from the Academy used a decimal system and defined the meter to be one 10-millionths of the distance from the equator to the Earth's Pole (that is, the Earth's circumference would be equal to 40 million meters). The committee consisted of the mathematicians Jean Charles de Borda (1733-1799), Joseph-Louis Comte de Lagrange (1736-1813), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827), Gaspard Monge (1746 -1818), and Marie Jean Antoine Nicholas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794)