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smoot
The smoot is a nonstandard humorous 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 down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers, including Peter S. Miller, Gordon Mann, Nathan Hopton, Tony Caserta and William Edmiston, could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
==Unit description==
One smoot is equal to Oliver Smoot's height at the time of the prank, .〔 The bridge's length was measured to be 364.4 smoots (620.1 m) plus or minus one ear, with the "plus or minus" intended to express uncertainty of measurement.〔Tavernor, Robert, ''Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity'', Yale University Press (2007), ISBN 978-0-300-12492-7, Preface, pp. xi-xvi〕 Over the years the "or minus" portion has gone astray in many citations, including the markings at the site itself, but has now been enshrined in stone by Smoot's college class.
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