Re:m/dd/yyyy indeed? (Score 2, Insightful)

You forgot to mention something even more arbitrary, the decimal system. 3.1415926535 really has no significance in the universe.
Neither does 11.00100100001111110110 (binary) nor 3.243F6A8885A308D31319 (hexadecimal)
The equation pi = c/d is what is true and real (and irrational - but I digress.)