> I'm failing to see what that has to do with the metric system
You are an apprentice house builder. Your boss hands you meter-stick, with 100 lines on it to mark out the centemeters, and asks you to cut him a piece of wood which is 1/3 meter long. This puzzles you, because you can't find a line on that stick which indicates 1/3rd of a meter.
So you go back to your boss, and he grumbles, but gives you another meter stick, with 1,000 lines on it. You still can't find a line on the stick which indicates 1/3rd of a meter....
You are an apprentice house builder. Your boss hands you meter-stick, with 100 lines on it to mark out the centemeters, and asks you to cut him a piece of wood which is 1/3 meter long. This puzzles you, because you can't find a line on that stick which indicates 1/3rd of a meter.
So you go back to your boss, and he grumbles, but gives you another meter stick, with 1,000 lines on it. You still can't find a line on the stick which indicates 1/3rd of a meter....