Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:06:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>
To:        mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Useful Metric Conversions
Message-ID:  <200003162106.QAA34527@dean.pc.sas.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn1ny4tv3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from Dag-Erling Smorgrav at "Mar 16, 2000 08:06:56 pm"

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mark Ovens wrote:
>   1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
>   2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
>   10 cards = 1 decacards
>   1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
>   453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
>   1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
>   10 rations = 1 decoration
>   100 rations = 1 C-ration
>   10 millipedes = 1 centipede
>   3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
>   2 monograms = 1 diagram
>   8 nickels = 2 paradigms
>   2 wharves = 1 paradox
> 
>   I hope this proves a useful tool.

I like this list, here's an addition:

  1 noid = a solenoid.
  2 solenoids = a paranoid.

I can't take credit for these, these are from a co-worker.

-Brian
-- 
Brian Dean				brdean@unx.sas.com
SAS Institute Inc.			bsd@FreeBSD.ORG


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200003162106.QAA34527>