Occasionally I wonder why math is so scantily represented in street names. Integers are everywhere, and some addresses have 1/2 or rarely 1/4 and 3/4. (Those quarters seem to be a specialty of Los Angeles bungalow courts.) There are only a few decimal street names applied to county roads. For instance, T.5 Road is halfway between the mile divisions of T Road and U Road.
What about geom and trig? Euclid St is common, though I don’t think it’s a reference to the old Greek. It’s usually in an industrial area where Euclid was a major brand of equipment. Circle Drive is extremely common, including one just uphill from me. Most Circle Drives aren’t really circular. Perimeter and Diagonal are fairly common on bypasses and access roads.
Is there a Pythagoras? Google finds exactly one in the world. It’s in Utrecht among a HUGE set of streets named after philosophers, scientists and artists. Again not really a geometry reference.
So let’s have some fun. In most cities the Avenues are cosine and the Streets are sine. Many curvy streets could have function names.
Polistra and Happystar are driving their Bantam along Pythagoras.
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Silly sidenote. The PO just missed the fun part of zipcode 31416. It appears to be the zip for PO boxes in downtown Savannah. Many cities in Georgia have circular boundaries, originally determined by the defense radius of cannons at a central fort. Would have been perfect, but Savannah isn’t one of those circle cities. PO did a better job with their zipcode for Santa letters. 88888 is a line of snowmen. Canada’s postal code for Santa letters is H0H 0H0, even cuter.
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Adding: Per Reddit, Barretton Wisconsin has some streets like 29 11/16 Avenue and 7 7/8 Street. Barretton is a tiny but active village, only about six blocks, so it doesn’t really need a complex grid. The names are part of a county grid with fractional miles, like the Colorado county with decimal miles.
