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Metric Prefixes (Real)Dubious Metrics
Date: 1994/07/29 Agree? Disagree? : Have Your Say Buy Books About This Topic At: Amazon UK Amazon US Send This Article To A Friend: Email It Use Telepathy Dubious MetricsA millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. A microhelen is the amount of beauty required to motivate one sailor. A megahelen is the amount of beauty required to make the sailor think in any other terms than a one-night stand. But this is all rather bogus, since we are applying metric prefixes to Troy units. Other Dubious Metrics10^12 dactyls = 1 teradactyl
10^15 philes = 1 petaphile
10^18 stentials = 1 exastential
10^21 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10^18 minations = 1 examination
10^15 coats = 1 petacoat
10^12 bulls = 1 terabull
10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10^12 pins = 1 terrapin
billions and billions = 1 Sagan
10^9 lows = 1 gigalow
10^9 antics = 1 gigantic
10^9 questions = 1 gigawhat
10^9 micrometers = 1 kilometer
= 200 pentameters
10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
10^6 airs = 1 millionair
2^10^3 millinaries = 4 seminaries
= 1 binary
2x10^3 mockingbirds = 2 kilo mockingbird
1000 Kowalskis = 1 Kilokowalski
("Killer" Kowalski was a well-known professional wrestler from about 20 years ago.) 10 cards = 1 decacard
10 decor = 1 hector
10 dence = 1 decadence
10 halls with boughs of holly = decahalls with etc.
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
10 monologues = 5 dialogues
= 1 decalogue
10 rations = 1 decoration
5 holocausts = 1 Pentecost
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
2 bulls = 1 Pair a bull
2 homosexuals = 1 bisexual
1 centipede/second = 1 velocipede
1/2 Soviet press agency = 1 demitasse
10^-1 mate = 1 decimate
10^-2 mentals = 1 centimental
10^-3 ink machines = 1 millink machine
10^-3 on = 1 million
10^-5 dollars = 1 Millicent
10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche
10^-6 scopes = 1 microscope
10^-9 goats = 1 nanogoat
10^-9 Nanettes = 1 nanoNanette
10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo
10^-12 boulevards = 1 pico-boulevard
10^-12 dillies = 1 picodilly
10^-15 fatales = 1 femtofatale
10^-15 bismol = 1 fepto bismol
10^-18 boys = 1 atto boy
nano-nano = a prefix designating 10^-18 See also |
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