When the royal carpenters received a message from the king to make him a new bed, nobody expected to end up in the dungeon. However, when the beds arrived at the castle, there was a problem. A big problem. The king couldn't fit into any of them. They were all too small!
How did this happen? The royal mathematician investigated and found that the carpenters had indeed followed the king's exact specifications. They made beds that were 7 feet long and 4 feet wide, just as the king had measured with his own feet. The problem was that the carpenters all had smaller feet than the king!
After an intense discussion, the royal mathematicians came up with a few suggestions to prevent the problem from happening again:
- get only carpenters whose feet are the same size as the king
- create a tool the same size as the king's foot
- have the king measure all the pieces of wood in the future
We decided the easiest solution was to create a new tool: the kings foot. It would be a ruler, just like he was..
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