Mathematical Conversions
see at http://www.wjbo.com/content-fun-mathematical_conversions.htm

One-half large intestine = 1 semicolon

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi
  
2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital= 1 I.V. League
  
2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton
  
1 millionth mouthwash: 1 microscope
  
Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier: Mach Turtle
  
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong
  
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling: 1 lite
year
  
16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Sterling
  
1000 aches: 1 megahurtz
  
Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram
  
Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
  
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: bananosecond
  
A Half-Bath: 1 demijohn
  
453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake
  
Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step," the first step of a one-mile journey: 1 Milwaukee
  
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
  
1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles
  
365.25 days: 1 unicycle
  
2200 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds
  
10 cards: 1 decacards
  
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
  
1000 grams of wet socks: 1 literhosen
  
1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche
  
1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin
  
1 million billion picolos: 1 gigolo
  
10 rations: 1 decoration
  
100 rations: 1 C-ration
  
10 millipedes: 1 centipede
  
3 1/3 tridents: 1 decadent
  
10 monologs: 5 dialogs
  
5 dialogs: 1 decalog
  
2 monograms: 1 diagram
  
8 nickels: 2 paradigms
  
2 wharves: 1 paradox
  
100 Senators: Not 1 decision 
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