Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement Life Stages Magic Tree House books

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dark plans emerge from the corners of the vast metropolis

whatever that may be

But the origins of the disturbances lie centuries ago

And one of those dragons is human

Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement Life Stages Magic Tree House booksCould you be the next smoot? One MIT students diminutive height becomes his mathematical superpowerand claim to famein a true story thats 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 strawand 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 time.