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Thursday, 30 September 2010

The SI Unit for Politicians

Bishop Alan asks what happens when you times a Miliband by a Miliband. The answer would be you get a square Miliband.  Which could be either of them, if you ask me.  And if you times by another one, that would be a cubic Miliband. Times-ing by another would give a 4-dimensional hyperMiliband, if you can face the thought.

I guess while we're at it we could consider that 10 Milibands would be a Centiband.  1,000 Milibands, if you can imagine such a thing, would be a Band. 1,000,000 Milibands would be a Kiloband, and a billion (US) Milibands a Megaband. A million Megabands would be a TeraBand, but now we're just getting silly. One thousandth of a Miliband is a Microband.

Hope this helps.

3 comments:

  1. Surely it's a thousand Megabands to a Gigaband. A million Megabands is a Teraband. Get it wrong and you could be in serious trouble!

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  2. ...though this IS an oasis of fuzzy thinking...

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  3. Not that fuzzy, RevSimmy. You are quite right. I blame the advice I took from a Data Warehousing manager. They don't get out of bed for less than a Terabyte these days.

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