How many smoot in 1 stadion? The answer is 92.666588318251. We assume you are converting between smoot and stadion. You can view more details on each measurement unit: smoot or stadion The SI base unit for length is the metre. 1 metre is equal to 0.58761311552474 smoot, or 0.0063411540900444 stadion. Note that rounding errors may occur, so always check the results. Use this page to learn how to convert between smoots and stadia. Type in your own numbers in the form to convert the units!
1 smoot to stadion = 0.01079 stadion
10 smoot to stadion = 0.10791 stadion
20 smoot to stadion = 0.21583 stadion
30 smoot to stadion = 0.32374 stadion
40 smoot to stadion = 0.43166 stadion
50 smoot to stadion = 0.53957 stadion
100 smoot to stadion = 1.07914 stadion
200 smoot to stadion = 2.15828 stadion
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A smoot is a unit of distance (or "length", as physical scientists say) used for measuring the Harvard Bridge. It is named after an MIT fraternity pledge at Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Oliver R. Smoot (class of 1962). In October of 1958, fellow students helped Mr. Smoot measure the length of the bridge by placing him end to end and marking the increments. Oliver was a top student at MIT and went on to run NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The smoot is equal to his height (five feet and seven inches -- 1.70 m), and the bridge's length was measured to be "364.4 smoots plus one ear".
An empirical determination of the length of the stadion was made by Lev Vasilevich Firsov, who compared 81 distances given by Eratosthenes and Strabo with the straight-line distances measured by modern methods, and averaged the results. He obtained a result of about 157.7 metres (172.5 yd).
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