The other day i came across the (joke) unit of measurement known as the Helen, where 1 Helen is the beauty required to launch 1,000 ships. Therefore, based on the metric prefix system, a millihelen was the amount of beauty needed to launch 1 ship. In Australia, The number of people required to fill the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground), is often used to help conceptualise size, and with a capacity of ~100,000, lends itself to a metric unit of measurement. For example Australia has a population of ~27 million, which works out to be 270 MCGs full of people, or 2.7 hectoMCGs (or 0.27 kiloMCGs). Or the number of people in Tumbleweed (5) is 50 microMCGs (or 0.05 milliMCGs).
Enter the number of people to convert it to MCG units:
| Unit Name | Power | No. of People |
|---|---|---|
| gigaMCG | 109 | 100,000,000,000,000 |
| megaMCG | 106 | 100,000,000,000 |
| kiloMCG | 103 | 100,000,000 |
| hectoMCG | 102 | 10,000,000 |
| decaMCG | 101 | 1,000,000 |
| MCG | 100 | 100,000 |
| deciMCG | 10-1 | 10,000 |
| centiMCG | 10-2 | 1,000 |
| milliMCG | 10-3 | 100 |
| microMCG | 10-6 | .1 |
| nanoMCG | 10-9 | .0001 |