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02 Mar 2009, 11:53 pm
03 Mar 2009, 2:38 am
03 Mar 2009, 2:47 am
jrknothead wrote:
3/3/09: Math fans to celebrate Square Root Day
I call BS on this one... no self-respecting math major would use only the last two digits of a number to figure a square root... this must be one of those made-up holidays like Mothers Day or Christmas...
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Dust off the slide rules and recharge the calculators. Square Root Day is upon us.
The math-buffs' holiday, which only occurs nine times each century, falls on Tuesday — 3/3/09 (for the mathematically challenged, three is the square root of nine).
"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they're gone," said Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the event.
The winner gets, of course, $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.
Gordon's daughter even set up a Facebook page — one of a half-dozen or so dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with plans to celebrate in some way. Celebrations are as varied: Some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.
The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.
The math-buffs' holiday, which only occurs nine times each century, falls on Tuesday — 3/3/09 (for the mathematically challenged, three is the square root of nine).
"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they're gone," said Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the event.
The winner gets, of course, $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.
Gordon's daughter even set up a Facebook page — one of a half-dozen or so dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with plans to celebrate in some way. Celebrations are as varied: Some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.
The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.
I call BS on this one... no self-respecting math major would use only the last two digits of a number to figure a square root... this must be one of those made-up holidays like Mothers Day or Christmas...
Do not slag it off, let the maths people have their fun. It is clear to me that 3 / 3 / 9 is a number combination where the first two digets times each other give the last one which is a square. I am not greatly into maths but I do like numbers where the sum of all the digits is some pleasing number.
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03 Mar 2009, 3:25 pm
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03 Mar 2009, 6:04 pm
In case anyone is interested on March 14 (3/14) is Pi day and this year it is preceded by Friday the 13th...
13 is a Fibonacci number I guess this make a Phi day before Pi day.. 
04 Mar 2009, 9:26 am
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04 Mar 2009, 9:52 am
ruveyn wrote:
What about Pi Day? 3/14/16? Or Euler Day 2/7/18? Or Square Root of Two Day.
1/4/14?
ruveyhn
1/4/14?
ruveyhn
Random holidays topic
And these celebrations do not appear in a known pattern, that is, they do not happen yearly. So I can understand the excitement to some extent.
And what is with your name ruveyn? An extra h? Fancy that.
04 Mar 2009, 10:38 am
sartresue wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
What about Pi Day? 3/14/16? Or Euler Day 2/7/18? Or Square Root of Two Day.
1/4/14?
ruveyhn
1/4/14?
ruveyhn
Random holidays topic
And these celebrations do not appear in a known pattern, that is, they do not happen yearly. So I can understand the excitement to some extent.
And what is with your name ruveyn? An extra h? Fancy that.
Bad typingh
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04 Mar 2009, 2:39 pm
04 Mar 2009, 2:39 pm
ruveyn wrote:
What about Pi Day? 3/14/16?
ruveyhn
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Ummm... not quite. Who gave you permission to round off, when you should have truncated?
12 Mar 2009, 10:26 am
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