I suggest that 11261876 be called Carrier’s Constant
People in science gain immortality by having things named after them. Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) has a telescope plus Hubble’s Constant, concerned with how fast galaxies are moving away from Earth. The angle at which polarized light is perfectly transmitted through a transparent dielectric surface, with no reflection, is known as Brewster’s angle named after Sir David Brewster (1781 – 1868), a British scientist. Archimedes ( 287 BC – 212 BC) got short changed with his number, called the Archimedes’ constant because pi, or 3.14… was simply easier to say and write. Lacking on the list of scientific numbers, constants, and laws are any numbers specifically for the HVAC industry. There are plenty of honors for heating and thermodynamics like Celsius and Fahrenheit for their temperature scales and Carnot for his theoretical ideal thermodynamic cycle. Aerodynamics is just another fancy name for ventilation and Bernoulli’s equations help us understand the flow of air in ductwork and HVAC systems. The obvious choice to be honored with an HVAC number is its inventor Willis Carrier (1876-1950). The number two (2) is important in HVAC because that is the recommended number of annual service visits by a qualified HVAC technician for a home’s central HVAC system. The problems with “2” are that it puts Carrier at risk of suffering the same fate as Archimedes and its connection to a normal bodily function. I suggest that 11261876 be called Carrier’s Constant. It doesn’t apply to any great HVAC innovation, but it will remind people of Willis Carrier’s birthday on November 26, 1876. Nerds could add 11/26 to Pi Day (03/14), Mole Day (10/23 celebrating Avogadro’s number), and maybe they could schedule a Thanksgiving Weekend football game between Cornell (Carrier’s Alma Mater) and the Purdue Boilermakers to celebrate Carrier’s HVAC legacy.