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Useful conversions
NEW CONVERSIONS
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Earl Rogers, president of Precision Monolithics, has uncovered the following
useful conversion factors:
10**12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10**12 pins = 1 terrapin
10**-12 boulevards = 1 pico-boulevard
10**21 piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
1 centipede/second = 1 velocipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 holocausts = 1 Pentecost
10**6 bicycles = 2 megacycles
10**9 micrometers = 1 kilometer
= 200 pentameters
10 monologues = 5 dialogues
= 1 decalogue
2*10**3 millinaries = 4 seminaries (1)
= 1 binary
10**-5 dollars = 1 Millicent
1 milli-Helen = the amount of beauty required to launch 1 ship.
nano-nano = a prefix designating 10**18
(1) The enlightenment generated by a "seminary" is measured in "luminaries".?
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