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Subject: Re: New subject: Tesla vs gauss, and other obscure units
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NEW CONVERSIONS

	from EE Times -- 17 Aug 81

Earl rogers, president of Precision Monolithics, has uncovered the
following useful conversion factors.

	10^12 microphones	=	1 megaphone
	10^12 pins		=	1 terrapin
	10^-12 picolos		=	1 pico-boulevard
	10^21 picolos		=	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 millinaries	=	4 seminaries (*) = 1 binary
	10^-5 dollars		=	1 Millicent
	1 milli-Helen		=	the amount of beauty required to 
					launch 1 ship
	nano-nano		=	a prefix designating 10^18

(*) The enlightenment generated by a seminary is measured in luminaries.


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251