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Author Topic: Finally: Converting Units Sensibly  (Read 7907 times)

housetier

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Finally: Converting Units Sensibly
« on: June 19, 2008, 05:48 PM »


Have you ever wondered how many CDs it takes to backup you whole harddisk, or how long 90 AA batteries end to end are? Or maybe you just need a funny way to express a boring value.

In that case, head over to sensibleunits.com and start converting! You can also do the old style convert stuff, i.e. from inches to rods, but 100 inches equaling 1.3 Kobe Bryants is a lot funnier than 100 inches equaling 0.505 rods.  ;)


PhilB66

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Re: Finally: Converting Units Sensibly
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 05:58 PM »
Cool find  :Thmbsup:

BTW, Cody is not in the database yet. mouser?

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Re: Finally: Converting Units Sensibly
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2008, 07:35 PM »
Impressive!!
Try typing '1', and then adding '1's to the end(or the beggining :P). This way, you'll see all the stuff they have, it's pretty cool to see all that variety :)

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Re: Finally: Converting Units Sensibly
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2008, 09:30 PM »
I wonder how 1 female lion equals 10 mircowaves?

Screenshot - 20_06_2008 , 12_28_15 PM.pngFinally: Converting Units Sensibly

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Re: Finally: Converting Units Sensibly
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2008, 09:39 PM »
I wonder how 1 female lion equals 10 mircowaves?
 (see attachment in previous post)
-Perry Mowbray (June 19, 2008, 09:30 PM)

Or this (unit is square inches)


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Re: Finally: Converting Units Sensibly
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2008, 09:52 PM »
I wonder how 1 female lion equals 10 mircowaves?
 (see attachment in previous post)
-Perry Mowbray (June 19, 2008, 09:30 PM)

Or this (unit is square inches)

-cranioscopical (June 19, 2008, 09:39 PM)

The paper I can figure out...  :-\ but their CDs are HUGE!