Making the world better, one answer at a time. During his lifetime, it is estimated that Andrew Carnegie gave away about $350 million. That was an enormous amount of money for the day.   Andrew Carnegie was estimated to be worth $189.6 billion dollars (1996 dollars), which is the second largest fortune accumulated by anyone.
Your pedometer likely comes with an instruction manual which includes directions on how to measure your stride. Most pedometers suggest that you take 10 steps, measure the distance from start to finish, and divide by 10. The result is your stride length. Very fast. Very simple.
At the same time, count the volunteer's strides, which are two steps. Find out the volunteer's mean number of strides. Divide the distance by the number of strides to arrive at stride length. Repeat the procedure with a volunteer of a different height to see how stride is affected by a person's height.