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A Little Math

Just in case you have forgotten your unit equivalencies and need a refresher course...

  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? = Knot furlong

  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 megahurtz

  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. 1 million bicycles? = 2 megacycles.

  15. 365.25 days? = 1 unicycle

  16. 2000 mockingbirds? = 2 kilomockingbirds

  17. 10 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. 8 nickels? = 2 paradigms

  26. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital? = 1 I.V. League

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