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Re: SI units (not quite)



At 03:08 PM 3/4/98 -0500, John Ertel wrote:
Here is a short list of units which are certainly not SI given to me by
a group of my midhipmen(students). They thought that the list was
hilarious and were laughing out loud as they gave it to me.

1000 microphones = 1 megaphone

Hm - this is either a milliphone, or the left side should read 10^6 phones.

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