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Handy
Engineering Conversions
Ratio of an
igloo's circumference to its diameter:
......................... Eskimo
Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:
...................................................
Won ton
1 millionth of a cup of mouthwash:
............................................. 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
..... 1 bananosecond
Weight that an evangelist carries with God:
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1 billigram
The time to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
.................. 1
Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer:
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1 lite year
16.5 feet of silver: .....................................................................
1 Rod Sterling
0.5 large intestine: ..................................................................... 1
semicolon
1000 aches: ..............................................................................
1 kilohertz
1 trillion microphones: ............................................................... 1
megaphone
1 million bicycles: ......................................................................
2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds: ..................................................................
2 kilomockingbirds
10 cards: ..................................................................................
1 decacards
Weight of 1 kilogram of figs at sea level:
....................................
9.8 Fig Newtons
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks:
........................................ 1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish: ...................................................................
1 microfiche
1 trillion pins: ............................................................................
1 terrapin
10 rations: ................................................................................
1 decaration
100 rations: ..............................................................................
1 C-ration
2 monograms: ...........................................................................
1 diagram
8 nickels: ..................................................................................
2 paradigms
3 statute miles of intravenous tubing at Yale University Hospital:
....1 I.V. League |