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Link - traditional surveying length unit
Link is a historical unit used in land surveying as 1/100 of a Gunter’s chain. Used on cadastral maps, field books, and deeds throughout the English-speaking world.
- Symbols: l, lk, or lnk (varies)
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic surveying)
- Exact relations: 1 link = 1/100 chain = 1/25 rod = 0.66 ft = 7.92 in
- Metric equivalents: 1 link = 0.201168 m (exact); 100 links = 20.1168 m (1 chain)
- Typical examples: parcel frontage like “12 ch 37 lks”; old plats listing sides in chains and links
Smoot - humorous nonstandard length unit
Smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length equal to 5 ft 7 in, the height of Oliver R. Smoot (MIT ’62). Used to measure the Harvard Bridge in 1958 as “364.4 smoots ± 1 ear” and referenced in engineering culture and local markings
- Symbol: none standardized (sometimes sm or smt)
- System: Informal/non-SI
- Exact relations: 1 smoot = 5 ft 7 in = 67 in (exact)
- Metric equivalents: 1 smoot = 67 × 0.0254 m = 1.7018 m (exact)
- Typical examples: Harvard Bridge markings at 10-smoot intervals; humorous unit conversions in campus lore