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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 14:15:42 PST 

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:15:42 -0800
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: FW: math

>From: "Rudge, Georgiana" <Georgiana.Rudge@sjeccd.cc.ca.us>

>
>
> Useful English System 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 Sterling
>
> 1/2 large intestine = 1 semicolon
>
> 1000 aches = 1 megahertz
>
> 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 =
>1bananosecond
>
> 1/2 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
>
> Useful Metric Conversions:
> 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
>
> 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
>
> 365.25 days = 1 Unicycle
>
> 500 millionaries = 1 seminary
>
> 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
>
> 10 cards = 1 decacards
>
> 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
>
> 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 Liter Hosen
>
> 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
>
> 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
>
> 1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo
>
> 10 rations = 1 decoration
>
> 100 rations = 1 C-ration
>

Paul "But it is more complicated than that!" Doherty,
Senior Staff Scientist, The Exploratorium.
pauld@exploratorium.edu, www.exo.net/~pauld

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