Engineering
Mathematics and Definitions (A bit of humor)
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1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
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. 365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1
8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling
9. Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon
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1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz
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Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower
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Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
13.
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
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1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
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1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
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2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
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10 cards: 1 decacards
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1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
19.
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen
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1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
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1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
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10 rations: 1 decoration
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100 rations: 1 C-ration
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2 monograms: 1 diagram
25.
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
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3 statute miles of I.V. surgical tubing at Yale Univ Hospital: One I.V.
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