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From: hgp@houem.UUCP (#H.PAGE)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Units Of Measure
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 17:42:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 17:42:44 1985
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This was posted about a year and a half ago. I think it
came from someone at USC. Here goes:

10**18 minations = 1 examination
10**15 coats = 1 petacoat
10**12 bulls = 1 terabull
10**9  lows = 1 gigalow
2*10**3 mockingbird = 2 kilomockingbird
10 cards = 1 decacard
10**-1 mate = 1 decimate
10**-2 mentals = 1 centimental
10**-2 pedes = 1 centiped
10**-3 ink machines = 1 millink machine
10**-6 scopes = 1 microscopes
10**-9 goats = 1 nanogoat
10**-9 nanettes = 1 nanonanette
10**-12 boos = 1 picoboo
10**-15 fatales = 1 femtofatale
10**-18 boys = 1 attoboy

Cheers!
Howard G. Page