Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The Unofficial List of Unusual Units of Measure

Thanks to my buddy Angelo, I thought I'd share!

My favorites:

Area
Barn: 1.0×10-28
Nanoacre: 4 mm²

Time
Jiffy: 0.01 seconds

Fame
Warhol: 15 minutes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement

1 comment:

Mr. Carney said...

Weird!
I never knew this list existed.
I do like the "Mickey" too, but that's because it relates to computer mice and, welp, I'm a nerd.