Fun_People Archive
17 May
Conversion Factors
Date: Tue, 17 May 94 14:30:44 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: Conversion Factors
Forwarded-by: cate3@netcom.com (Henry Cate)
10**12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10**12 pins = 1 terrapin
10**21 picolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
10 millipedes = 1 centepede
1 centepede/second = 1 velocipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
10**6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
10**7 micrometers = 2 pentameters
10 monologues = 5 dialogues
5 x 10**2 millinaries = 1 seminary
2 x 10**3 millinaries = 1 binary
10**-5 dollars = 1 Milicent
1 milli-Helen = beauty required to launch one ship
nano-nano = a prefix designating 10**18
0.3 decals = 1 trial
5 grams = 1 pentagram
5 monocles = 1 pentacle
10 decimates = 1 mate
10 milliners = 1 centner
10 embers = 1 december
10 dents = 1 decadent
100 decides = 1 decade
3.0410**6 microbes = 1 tribe
0.5410**12 bibles = 1 terrible
© 1994 Peter Langston