i need to find a joke about the metric system and im having the hardest time! help!
2007-10-03 15:36:54 · 2 answers · asked by Kyra :] 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
10 cards = 1 deca-cards
10 dence = 1 deca-dence
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilo-mockingbird
10 trillion bulls = 1 tera-bull
10 quadrillion coats = 1 peta-coat
1 billion questions = 1 giga-what
1 trillion dactyls = 1 tera-dactyl
1,000,000 phones = 1 mega-phone
1/100 mentals = 1 centi-mental
1/1000000 fish = 1 micro-fiche
1/1000000 scopes = 1 micro-scope
1/1000000000 goats = 1 nano-goat
10^-12 boos = 1 pico-boo
10^-18 boys = 1 atto boy
2007-10-03 18:07:09 · answer #1 · answered by Puzzling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just some fun with conversion factors:
10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
2007-10-03 15:45:22 · answer #2 · answered by lhvinny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋