{"id":232,"date":"2016-12-27T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=232"},"modified":"2016-12-27T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T06:02:53","slug":"engineering-conversion-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Conversion Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-large;\">Engineering Conversion Factors<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica;\"><span lang=\"0\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Ratio of an igloo&#8217;s circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi<\/p>\n<p>2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton<\/p>\n<p>1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope<\/p>\n<p>Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement: 1bananosecond<\/p>\n<p>Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram<\/p>\n<p>Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour: Knot-furlong<\/p>\n<p>364.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it&#8217;s less filling: 1 lite year<\/p>\n<p>165 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling<\/p>\n<p>Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon<\/p>\n<p>1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz<\/p>\n<p>Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower<\/p>\n<p>Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line (think about it for a moment)<\/p>\n<p>453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake<\/p>\n<p>1 million microphones: 1 megaphone<\/p>\n<p>1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles<\/p>\n<p>2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>10 cards: 1 decacards<\/p>\n<p>1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton<\/p>\n<p>1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen<\/p>\n<p>1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche<\/p>\n<p>1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin<\/p>\n<p>10 rations: 1 decoration<\/p>\n<p>100 rations: 1 C-ration<\/p>\n<p>2 monograms: 1 diagram<\/p>\n<p>8 nickels: 2 paradigms<\/p>\n<p>3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital: 1 I.V. League <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Engineering Conversion Factors Ratio of an igloo&#8217;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: 1bananosecond Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram Time it takes to sail 220 yards at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Engineering Conversion Factors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}