One smoot is 5 feet 7 inches long, which is 67 inches or about 1.7018 meters.

Quick Scoop on the Smoot

The smoot is a playful, unofficial unit of length created in 1958 at MIT, when students measured the Harvard (Mass Ave) Bridge using the height of a fraternity pledge, Oliver R. Smoot, as the “ruler.” Because Smoot was 5'7", that height became the definition of one smoot.

So in practical terms:

  • 1 smoot = 5 feet 7 inches
  • 1 smoot = 67 inches
  • 1 smoot ≈ 1.7018 meters

Fun extra: the Harvard Bridge is famously marked as about 364.4 smoots long, “plus or minus one ear,” and modern tools like Google and some mapping apps even let you convert distances into smoots for fun.

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