Now there's a typical goofy Google holiday celebration for you... and as soon as I saw this piece this morning that was my first inclination saying to myself "They didn't acknowledge Veterans Day for 10 years until 2007, but I bet they do this one" and so I went to check their logo for the day and ......I was wrong...:(But anyways here's why today is Square Root Day and so we and all our friends can all make the after work party plans accordingly.....:>)lol
Square Root Day revelers to party like it's 3/3/09
| Cutting Edge - CNET News: "Count on Tuesday's alignment of the calendar to add some excitement to the lives of at least a few math geeks.
Tuesday is Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.
'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,' Ron Gordon, a Redwood City, Calif., teacher who organized a contest intended to publicize the event, told the Associated Press. The prize, or course, is $339.
Celebrants are expected to mark the occasion by cutting root vegetables into squares or preparing other foods in the shape of the square root symbol.
Square Root Day occurs only nine times in a century. The last one occurred on February 2, 2004, and the next will occur in seven years on April 4, 2016.
Square Root Day isn't the only humorous holiday celebrated in the math world."
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