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Historically, a yard was based on the length of a person's stride or the distance from the tip of the nose to the end of their outstretched arm. In medieval England, it was standardized to be the distance from the tip of King Henry I's nose to the end of his thumb, which was about 36 inches. This length was later formalized, and the yard became a defined unit of measurement in the Imperial system. Today, the yard is equivalent to 0.9144 meters in the metric system.

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