New Math Measurements

Many years ago, I received the following information in a viral email.

I forgot who forwarded it to me.

(This is just one of many articles that I have received in the last 35 years that make math fun.)

I hope you find these new math measurements as funny as I did.

• Ratio of an igloo’s circumference to its diameter = Eskimo PI
• 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won ton
• 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
• Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1 bananosecond
• The weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
• Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = Knot-furlong
• 365 days of drinking diet beverages = 1 lite year
• 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
• Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
• 1000 aches = 1 kilohurtz
• The basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
• The shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line
• 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
• 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
• 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
• 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
• 10 cards = 1 decacards
• 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
• 1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks = 1 literhosen
• 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
• 10 rations = 1 decoration
• 100 rations = 1 C-ration

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