On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:08:19 -0400, davidp wrote:

The smoot 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 down repeatedly on the
Harvard Bridge (between Boston & Cambridge, Mass) so that his fraternity
brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

Nice that Smoot went on to head ANSI, and then ISO.



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