**Alternate title: "How to make Pi"
A tutorial on the Buckingham Pi method, why dimensionless parameters are awesome (not just the Reynolds number), and how they can be used to narrow down the solution space before even a single experiment is performed.

Submitted to #SoME3
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References and images

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PierreGilles de Gennes during a lecture in 2006. CC BYSA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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