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New metric units of measurement...
From EE Times -- 17 Aug 81
Earl Rogers, president of Precision Monolithics Inc,
has uncovered the following useful conversion factors.
10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10^12 pins = 1 terrapin
10^-12 Boos = 1 Picoboo
10^21 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
1 centipede/second = 1 velocipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 holocausts = 1 Pentecost
10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
10^9 micrometers = 1 kilometer = 200 pentameters
10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
2 x 10^3 millineries = 4 seminaries (*) = 1 binary
10^-5 dollars = 1 Millicent
1 milli-Helen = the amount of beauty required to
launch 1 ship
2x10^3 mockingbird = 2 kilomockingbird
(*) The enlightenment generated by a seminary is measured in luminaries.
I cannot comment on the number of tridents per decadent, I
never studied dentistry. Did they happen upon this by accident?
73 de Pete, G6WBJ@GB7SDN