NEW CONVERSIONS
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Earl Rogers, president of Precision Monolithics, has uncovered the following
useful conversion factors:

10**12 microphones      = 1 megaphone
10**12 pins             = 1 terrapin
10**-12 boulevards      = 1 pico-boulevard
10**21 piccolos         = 1 gigolo
10 rations              = 1 decoration
10 millipedes           = 1 centipede
1 centipede/second      = 1 velocipede
3 1/3 tridents          = 1 decadent
5 holocausts            = 1 Pentecost
10**6 bicycles          = 2 megacycles
10**9 micrometers       = 1 kilometer
                        = 200 pentameters
10 monologues           = 5 dialogues
                        = 1 decalogue
2*10**3 millinaries     = 4 seminaries (1)
                        = 1 binary
10**-5 dollars          = 1 Millicent
1 milli-Helen           = the amount of beauty required to launch 1 ship.
nano-nano               = a prefix designating 10**18

(1) The enlightenment generated by a "seminary" is measured in "luminaries".