March 3, 200917 yr http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_...square_root_day 3/3/09: Math fans to celebrate Square Root Day 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.
March 3, 200917 yr Author I thought it was really funny... square cuts of vegetable roots... I laughed - hard.
March 3, 200917 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 05:15 AM) And truth to the rumor that they'll be a Pi Eating contest? why that would be on 3/14 not 3/3/09
March 3, 200917 yr QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 12:29 AM) why that would be on 3/14 not 3/3/09 Actually, that would be on 3/14/15. It's a math themed event.
March 3, 200917 yr While I see your point, my math teacher celebrated pi day every year and mole day every year...
March 3, 200917 yr QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 3, 2009 -> 12:35 AM) While I see your point, my math teacher celebrated pi day every year and mole day every year... Perhaps "Bobbing For Sir Issac Newton's Apples" would be a better game? Algebra Mad Libs? Pin the tail on Pythagoras? Best Horseshoe Parabolas with Archimedes' Theorems?
March 3, 200917 yr Wow, I needed a reason to get out of bed today. And my favorite math joke There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that get binary, and those that don't.
March 3, 200917 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Mar 2, 2009 -> 11:31 PM) Actually, that would be on 3/14/15. It's a math themed event. Wouldn't it be 3/14/16...you'd have to round it.
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