You get about 946 smoots in a mile. More precisely, 1 smoot is defined as 1.7018 meters, and 1 mile is exactly 1609.344 meters, so:

smoots per mile=1609.3441.7018≈945.67\text{smoots per mile}=\frac{1609.344}{1.7018}\approx 945.67smoots per mile=1.70181609.344​≈945.67

So:

  • 1 mile ≈ 945.7 smoots
  • People commonly round that to about 946 smoots in a mile

Fun extra: this quirky unit comes from an MIT prank in 1958, when students measured the Harvard Bridge using the body length of Oliver Smoot, whose height became the definition of one smoot.