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Unusual units fo measurement
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement#Units_for_unconventional_measurements
Cracked by Arun, Raytracer, Chin2 and Vishal
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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4 comments:
1) Warhol painting
2) Gillette
3) Carl Sagan
4) Big Mac
5) Sen. Jake Garn
Unconventional units of measurement
1) Warhol measures fame. 1 Warhol=15 minutes of fame from his quote.
2) Gillette measures Laser power - number of gillette blades a given laser beam can burn a hole.
3) Sagan - Scalar value with a minimum of 4,000,000,000. From Sagan saying 'billions and billions of stars'.
4) Big Mac Index- To compare purchasing power parity between 2 countries
5) Garn - Unit of spacesickness from what the Senator experienced during a space flight.
Lovely Q!!
Vishal
These are units for various arbit things:
Warhols:Fame
BigMac Index: Purchasing Power Parity
Gillette: Gait
Unusual units of measurement.
Units for unconventional measurements.
Warhol for fame
Gillette for laser power
Big Mac index for purchasing power parity
Sagan a scalar unit equalling 4,000,000
Garn, NASA's unit of measure for symptoms resulting from space adaptation syndrome, the response of the human body to weightlessness in space
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