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Bookmark or Share- Smoot: The Most Hilarious Mathematical Unit - Interesting EngineeringA smoot is a nonstandard unit of length that originated at MIT in the 1950s. The year was 1958, and Oliver R. Smoot was pledging to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
- Smoot - WikipediaThe smoot / ˈ s m uː t / is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
- What is the unit called a smoot? - SizesWhat is the unit called a smoot? A jocular unit of length in Massachusetts, USA, = 5 feet 7 inches, defined in 1958 by members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- George Smoot - WikipediaGeorge Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and the second contestant to win the $1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
- Smoot reflects on his measurement feat as 50th anniversary nearsIn an article for Physics World about unique scales of measurement, Stephen Ornes highlights the “smoot,” a measurement of distance equivalent to the height of MIT alumnus Oliver Smoot. Ornes, who spoke with Smoot for the story, notes that he “eventually led the leading organizations behind setting standards of measurement.”
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