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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (22653)2/26/2002 10:16:51 PM
From: Tony McFadden  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 62552
 
Karen, some conversion errors...

1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
more like 1 kilohurtz

and I was going to quote the 8 nickles/2 paradimes as being wrong, but then I thought about it for a second...

Tony



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (22653)3/1/2002 11:56:44 AM
From: The Rabbit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 62552
 
Other mistakes:

1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
A micro is already a thousandth, so you'd need a billion micros to make a million, or mega.

2200 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
I assume this is a typo? 2000.

Additions:

1 billionth of a billionth: 1 nano-nano

A file consisting of a quadrillion bytes: 1 petafile