Useful Conversions

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TODAY (MAY 20) IS "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES" DAY . . . . .

USEFUL CONVERSIONS/UNITS ......

- Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

- 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital

= 1 I.V. League

- 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

- 1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope

- Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle

- Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong

- 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite

year

- 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling

- Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

- 1000 aches = 1 megahurtz

- Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

- Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

- Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

- Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

- A Half-Bath = 1 demijohn

- 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

- Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single

step", the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee

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10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone

10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles

500 millinaries = 1 seminary

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

10 cards = 1 decacards

1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn

10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche

454 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

10^12 pins = 1 terrapin

10^21 picolos = 10^9 los = 1 gigolo

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

10 millipedes = 1 centipede

3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent

10 monologs = 5 dialogues

5 dialogues = 1 decalogue

2 monograms = 1 diagram

8 nickels = 2 paradigms

2 snake eyes = 1 paradise

2 wharves = 1 paradox

10^-6 phones = 1 microphone

10^6 phones = 1 megaphone

10^-2 mental = 1 centimental

10^1 mate = 1 decimate

10^12 bulls = 1 terabull

10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo

10^15 bismol = 1 femtobismol