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Quiz Are you a words master? Eventually, he tired from all this exercise and was carried thereafter by the fraternity brothers to each new position. People walking across the bridge today can see painted markings indicating how many smoots there are from where the sidewalk begins on the Boston river bank.

The marks are repainted each semester by the incoming associate member class similar to pledge class of Lambda Chi Alpha. Markings typically appear every 10 smoots, but additional marks appear at other numbers in between.

For example, the smoot mark is omitted in favor of a mark for Each class also paints a special mark for their graduating year. The markings have become well-accepted by the public, to the degree that during the bridge renovations that occurred in the s, the Cambridge Police department requested that the markings be maintained, since they had become useful for identifying the location of accidents on the bridge. Google Calculator also incorporates smoots, which it reckons at exactly 67 inches 1.

Units of Measurement Wiki Explore. Recent blog posts Forum. Actually, I'm not. These are engineers we're talking about. They're good at numbers, not words. George Stimmel. This is 'Much ado about almost nothing. It is only statistically related to his vertical body's height measured in the warmth of his fraternity house. I say "semi-relaxed" because I don't believe I could relax more that times while laying on a concrete slab on a windy bridge with a measuring crew in a windchill not too far from freezing BGW Before Global Warming.

In ten years he'll be even shorter, will we readjust the length of the Smoot again then? Will we update Ptolemy's measurement of the earth because the modern distance from Alexandria to Memphis is remeasured or because the exact length of one of his pacers strides has been discovered although it is dated 25 years later? The Smoot is, was, and always will be 1. Any other length should be shown with an asterisk. With due respect to Prof Planck, this is the most hilarious thing I've read all day xD.

Mike Ober. Hi Ryan, you're right. How do we know the distance from the Cambridge side to the Boston side has remained unchanged? Also, I suggest we make a cast of Smoot of a zero temperature coefficient material to be used in the future. This would also allow for production of fractional measurements using deca Smoots and milli Smoots rather than ears.

The precedent for this is the milliHelen, which as we all know, is the amount of beauty sufficient to launch one ship. The Smoot wasn't re-calibrated when Oliver's son Steve or daughter Sherry attended, so why should it be re-calibrated to accommodate newer versions of the man himself? Maybe yours are subject to censorship like mine. I said something politically incorrect and ever since all my comments have been carefully examined before allowed to remain.

Brad Albom. OK, now the bigger question. Are we all going to have to go back and re-do our problem sets using the new smoot? Hopefully it will be in the next report. As a leading technological university, MIT should be disappointed in its involvement of a supposed measurement of the Harvard bridge using the Smoot.

As any MIT undergraduate knows, a measurement is not a measurement until you have characterized the uncertainty. A quoted length of 'X smoots plus an ear' might suffice for the Harvard crowd, but it should not be for MIT. At a minimum, we need to measure the bridge multiple times using Mr.