The Ultimate Metric Conversion Chart

Date Received: Tue, 30 Jun 1998
1,000,000,000,000 Microphones1 Megaphone
1,000,000 bicycles2 megacycles
500 millinaries1 seminary
2,000 mockingbirds2 kilomockingbirds
10 cards1 decacards
1/2 lavatory1 demijohn
0.000001 fish1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers1 pound cake
1,000,000,000,000 pins1 terrapin
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 picolos1 gigolo
10 rations1 decoration
100 rations1 C-ration
10 millipedes1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents1 decadent
5 holocausts1 Pentacost
10 monologs5 dialogues
5 dialogues1 decalogue
2 monograms1 diagram
8 nickels2 paradigms
2 snake eyes1 paradise
2 wharves1 paradox


More Units of Measure

Date Received: Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:Won ton
1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram (Billy Graham)
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 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)
453.6 graham crackers:1 pound cake
1 million microphones:1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:two kilomockingbirds (work on it...)
10 cards:1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks:1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish:1 microfiche
1 trillion pins:1 terrapin (a kind of turtle)
10 rations:1 decoration
100 rations:1 C-ration
2 monograms:1 diagram
8 nickels:2 paradigms
3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League
100 Senators:Not 1 decision

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