Scientific Conversions?????

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    (Un)Scientific Conversions

    Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

    2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton

    Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond

    Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

    Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong

    16.5 feet in theTwilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling

    Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon

    1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz

    Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

    Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line

    1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone

    2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

    365.25 days = 1 unicycle

    2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds

    52 cards = 1 decacards

    1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

    1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

    10 rations = 1 decoration

    2 monograms = 1 diagram

    4 nickels = 2 paradigms

    2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League
     
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        Love the microfiche:thumbsup:
         
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        I had a similar question in an RICS surveying examination question many years ago, but it was for the area of lead roofing on a domed roof structure (and lengths of lots of perimeter bits).

        If only I knew then what I now know.
         
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