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Engineers' Conversion Table

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

     2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
     3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
     4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 bananosecond
     5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
     6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knotfurlong
     7. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
     8. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
     9. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahertz
     10. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
     11. Shortest distance between two jokes = A straight line
     12. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
     13. 1 million-million microphones = 1 megaphone
     14. 2 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
     15. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
     16. 1000 mockingbirds =1 kilomockingbirds
     17. 52 cards = 1 decacards
     18. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
     19. 1000 milliliters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
     20. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
     21. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
     22. 10 rations = 1 decoration
     23. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
     24. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
     25. 4 nickels = 2 paradigms
     26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 IV League

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