Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement -- Jenny Lacika, Hardcover

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Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement -- Jenny Lacika, HardcoverCould you be the next smoot? One MIT student's diminutive height becomes his mathematical superpower and claim to fame in a true story that's 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 straw and was selected to be the measurement device to carry it out. The task? Measuring the length of a bridge, one lying down Oliver Smoot at a

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