It's Square Root Day!

zingo
zingo Posts: 11,258
edited March 2009 in The Clubhouse
Square root day is a humorous holiday celebrated on dates where the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits in the current year. For example, the last square root day was March 3, 2009 (3/3/09), and the next square root day will be April 4, 2016 (4/4/16). The final square root day of the century will occur on September 9, 2081. Square root days fall upon the same nine dates each century.

Ron Gordon, a Redwood City, California high school teacher, first created the day for 9/9/81. Gordon is the official public relations person and sends news releases to world media outlets. In addition, his daughter has got in on the act and set up a Facebook page for people to share how they were celebrating the day.

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2009
    Geeks, rejoice!
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2009
    Love it.
    Michael ;)
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2009
    So when is Pi(e) day?

    cnh
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited March 2009
    World Ends Dec 21 2012 according to the Myans. Looks like the last square root day of our time. Live it Up!


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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited March 2009
    cnh wrote: »
    So when is Pi(e) day?

    cnh

    that would've been on 3/14/1592
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited March 2009
    Thats really geeky.
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited March 2009
    What is the square root of Infinity?

    It was the easy one.

    Now comes a hard one - What is the square root of EMO? :D
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,705
    edited March 2009
    haven't had times like these since Feb 2, 2004. Bacchanalia.

    Have a slice of pie on the 14th, too.

    EDIT:
    megasat16 wrote: »
    Now comes a hard one - What is the square root of EMO? :D
    I dunno. I do know that, when spring comes, I have some landscape guys coming to replace our lawn with EMO grass. Very low maintenance; it cuts itself.

    PS I do know what the integral of 1/(cabin) d(cabin) is, though...
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2009
    mhardy6647 wrote:
    haven't had times like these since Feb 2, 2004.

    What a party time that was!!
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  • Pablo
    Pablo Posts: 723
    edited March 2009
    almost missed it. Good thing I signed on today! Guess I will have to drink twice as many beers!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,705
    edited March 2009
    Pablo wrote: »
    almost missed it. Good thing I signed on today! Guess I will have to drink twice as many beers!

    possibly 4 times as many. or maybe 1.414 times as many. I am not exactly sure.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited March 2009
    This kinda thing gets me all misty eyed, remembering when 400 level calc classes were the toughest things in life.
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