Metric Conversions
We Americans frequently have problems with metric conversions. In an
attempt to clarify the conversion process, I now submit some
Useful Metric Conversions
1 million Microphones = 1 Megaphone
1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
52 cards = 1 decacards
1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
1 thousand piccolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost
10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
2 monograms = 1 diagram
4 nickles = 2 paradigms
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
2 wharves = 1 paradox
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