Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of MeasurementBy: Jenny Lacika Illustrator: Anna Bron Could you be the next smoot? One MIT students diminutive height becomes his mathematical superpowerand claim to famein a true story thats entertaining and inspiring in equal measure. When the five foot seven inch Oliver Smoot and his friends at MIT decided to play a practical joke, he drew the short strawand was selected to be the measurement device to carry it out. The task? Measuring the length of a bridge,
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Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement