- 1. For the metrically challenged... (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 21:45:14 -0600
- ... my brother-in-law (a nuclear engineer) sent me this handy conversion Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi 2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton 1 millionth of a mouthwash:
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- 2. Re: For the metrically challenged... (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 00:39:29 -0500
- I belive this is incorrect. 1 million microphones = 1 Kilophone 1 billion microphones = 1 Megaphone (In America. In Britain, 1 thousand million microphones = 1 Megaphone) Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minn
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- 3. Re: For the metrically challenged... (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 09:59:35 -0500
- Not quite... Given: nano = billionth micro = millionth milli = thousandth centi = hundredth kilo = thousand mega = million giga = billion We get: 1 microphone is one millionth of a phone. Therefore I
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- 4. Re: For the metrically challenged... (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 08:48:11 -0400
- Message text written by "Phil Ethier" I belive this is incorrect. 1 million microphones = 1 Kilophone 1 billion microphones = 1 Megaphone (In America. In Britain, 1 thousand million microphones = 1 M
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- 5. Re: For the metrically challenged... (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:44:40 -0500
- Memo to me: Think faster. Type slower. Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA 1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.c
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