It's because inhabitants of metric land neglect the decimeter, probably because it's too awkward of a word.
Define 1 metric hand = 1 decimeter, and you can cleanly convert between hands and meters (it's just a factor of 10 instead of the weird jump from centimeters to meters) and at the same time be able to approximate three metric hands to a foot.
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It's because inhabitants of metric land neglect the decimeter, probably because it's too awkward of a word.
Define 1 metric hand = 1 decimeter, and you can cleanly convert between hands and meters (it's just a factor of 10 instead of the weird jump from centimeters to meters) and at the same time be able to approximate three metric hands to a foot.