Re: Units


Subject: Re: Units
From: RWW Taylor (RWTNTS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 09:05:17 EST


Thanks to Martha Haehl for posting this, er, useful list. :-)}

Some of these appeared in a recent issue of the MAA Monthly.
There seems to be one "thinko" in here, though (it also got past
the MAA editor). It would seem that one million microphones would
_not_ make a megaphone -- not nearly!

RWW Taylor
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester NY 14623
          
>>>> The plural of mongoose begins with p. <<<<
          

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