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Dubious Metrics --------------- A millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. A microhelen is the amount of beauty required to motivate one sailor. A megahelen is the amount of beauty required to make the sailor think in any other terms than a one-night stand. But this is all rather bogus, since we are applying metric prefixes to Troy units. Other Dubious Metrics --------------------- 10^12 dactyls = 1 teradactyl 10^15 philes = 1 petaphile 10^18 stentials = 1 exastential 10^21 piccolos = 1 gigolo 10^18 minations = 1 examination 10^15 coats = 1 petacoat 10^12 bulls = 1 terabull 10^12 microphones = 1 megaphone 10^12 pins = 1 terrapin billions and billions = 1 Sagan 10^9 lows = 1 gigalow 10^9 antics = 1 gigantic 10^9 questions = 1 gigawhat 10^9 micrometers = 1 kilometer = 200 pentameters 10^6 bicycles = 2 megacycles 10^6 airs = 1 millionair 2^10^3 millinaries = 4 seminaries = 1 binary 2x10^3 mockingbirds = 2 kilo mockingbird 1000 Kowalskis = 1 Kilokowalski ("Killer" Kowalski was a well-known professional wrestler from about 20 years ago.) 10 cards = 1 decacard 10 decor = 1 hector 10 dence = 1 decadence 10 halls with boughs of holly = decahalls with etc. 10 millipedes = 1 centipede 10 monologues = 5 dialogues = 1 decalogue 10 rations = 1 decoration 5 holocausts = 1 Pentecost 3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent 2 bulls = 1 Pair a bull 2 homosexuals = 1 bisexual 1 centipede/second = 1 velocipede 1/2 Soviet press agency = 1 demitasse 10^-1 mate = 1 decimate 10^-2 mentals = 1 centimental 10^-3 ink machines = 1 millink machine 10^-3 on = 1 million 10^-5 dollars = 1 Millicent 10^-6 fish = 1 microfiche 10^-6 scopes = 1 microscope 10^-9 goats = 1 nanogoat 10^-9 Nanettes = 1 nanoNanette 10^-12 boos = 1 picoboo 10^-12 boulevards = 1 pico-boulevard 10^-12 dillies = 1 picodilly 10^-15 fatales = 1 femtofatale 10^-15 bismol = 1 fepto bismol 10^-18 boys = 1 atto boy nano-nano = a prefix designating 10^-18