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Smoot - Wikipedia Oliver R Smoot was selected by his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledgemaster because he was deemed shortest—which made measuring the bridge the most labor-intensive—and he was the "most scientifically named "
Oliver R. Smoot - Wikipedia In 2011, American Heritage Dictionary admitted his decapitalized surname, smoot, meaning a distance of 5 feet 7 inches (1 70 m), as one of the 10,000 new words added to their fifth edition
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Smoots: How a fraternity prank turned into a measurement Now retired and living in San Diego, Smoot took the time to talk to The Register about the prank that made him a unit of measurement and the lasting impact of standards Looking back, he recalled how fraternity leaders assigned him the task, and he and his friends carried it out the next day
“Smoot” Enters the Dictionary | alum. mit. edu “Smoot: a unit of measurement equal to five feet, seven inches, often cited when discussing the inherent arbitrariness of measurement units; after Oliver Smoot whose height was used as the basis of the measurement ”
Smoot | Units of Measurement Wiki | Fandom Template:Unit of length The smoot ( ˈsmuːt ) is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank It is named after Oliver R Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts), and
Smoot smoot) - Unit Details | Unit Converter | UnitsConverter. io The Smoot is a non-standard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank in October 1958 It is defined by the height of Oliver R Smoot (MIT class of 1962) at the time of the prank, which was 5 feet 7 inches
American Heritage Dictionary Entry: smoot Since then, the smoot marks have been assiduously maintained on the bridge, which measures 364 4 smoots, plus or minus one ear Interestingly, Smoot went on to become the chair of the American National Standards Institute and president of the International Organization for Standardization