Strange, funny and baffling units for measuring almost anything | Royal Pingdom

[Tom Johnson]

Just in case you need a special metric....

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/

-tj


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[Robert Holmes]

There's a similar list on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement), where you'll also find a measure of information flow, the Dirac:

Physicist Paul Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn nature. His colleagues in Cambridge jokingly defined a unit of a dirac which was one word per hour.

—R

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just in case you need a special metric....

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/

-tj


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