February 6th, 2004

Did you know that the ratio of an igloo’s circumferance to its diameter is Eskimo Pi?

Neither did I, until Eugene Volokh sent me off to this table of non-standard conversion factors.

[But shouldn't it be a trillion microphones to the megaphone?]

Eugene has his own selections from the Wilkinson list, and one delicious addition:

1.5 dollops = 1 trollop

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