Lippard.Multics 1985-04-09 15:51:42 mst Tue
Subject:  New conversions
From the EE Times, August 17, 1981:

10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10^12 pins = 1 terrapin
10^-12 boulevards = 1 pico boulevard
10^21 picolos = 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 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

* The enlightenment generated by a seminary is measured in
  luminaries.