Happy Square Root Day!

[Rocky]

Christmas has come early for geeks around the world.

March 3, 2009 - 03/03/09 - is this decade's second "Square Root Day," when the month and day both form the square root of the year.

Math mavens are celebrating the holiday with square-root themed parties, contests and activities.

Redwood, Calif. teacher Ron Gordon, who has celebrated each Square Root Day since September 9, 1981, is sponsoring a contest to find the best expression of the holiday. The prize Gordon's offering is, of course, $339.

"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, you then they brighten up your day and - poof - they're gone," Gordon told the Associated Press.

Number-crunchers will party like it's 03/03/09 by indulging in the holiday's official celebratory meal - a plate of root vegetables cut into squares - or planning events like square dances.

"Square roots are like the fountain of youth," Gordon told The Punxsatawney Spirit.

"In October, I'll turn a mere 8-squared," Gordon said.

The last Square Root Day was Feb. 2, 2004 - Groundhog Day - and the next will be on April 4, 2016.

March 3 is the second of nine Square Root Days this century.

[Wolfgang]

Well, this is pretty stupid.

Of all the things to celebrate...

Oy vei.

[Phaedrus]

Happy Square Root Day to you too. It should be known as the perfect square day. The vast majority of the square roots of integers are non-integers and irrational.

[Wolfgang]

Well, on 3/21/17, I will be celebrating my first locker combination! It was right 3, left 21, and right 17. The numbers that make up the date 3/21/17 represent my first locker combination. Woo Hoo!

[cruncher]

Mar 3, 2009 18:55:13 GMT -5 Phaedrus said:

The vast majority of the square roots of integers are non-integers and irrational.

As are most VT'ers.

[rhinovb14]

Mar 3, 2009 18:55:13 GMT -5 Phaedrus said:

Happy Square Root Day to you too. It should be known as the perfect square day. The vast majority of the square roots of integers are non-integers and irrational.

And many of those would be imaginary or complex numbers because the set of integers includes the negatives. Being the nerd I am, I taught a lesson on irrational and imaginary square roots today.

[Rocky]

So, does anyone know what day March 14th is?

[Rocky]

Oh, by the way . . .
The article said that this is the second of nine square root days this century. Isn't it the third?
1/1/01, 2/2/04, 3/3/09 . . . etc.

[goGopherBill]

Notice the ...SQUARE part of the BS...add ANY prime #s +339 divide by your birthday #s and add the current day in Aztec calender ..

Multiply that # by total number of VTers who care and then subtract
r's total #s of post - Billy's

add the speed of light X the number of days in March.

Drink 1 MT dew while facing north. (diet)

Spin 3 times in opposite direction of earth's rotation.

Add the number of blue moons that occur this year and get..

a headache.

I hate math and squares.

Fingers and toes are there for a reason...use them.

[bigfan]

Square Root Day=goGopherBill!

[goGopherBill]

I worked on my math all night.

The # I got with using my equation was 1 trillion ..or just under the national deficit # for this year,

I may be off ..on the # of VT ers who care though..

[bigfan]

Mar 5, 2009 11:25:14 GMT -5 goGopherBill said:

I may be off ..on the # of VT ers who care though..

I care gogopherbill about everything that you write about.