Tuesday, 3 March 2009"Square root day" is a funny holiday celebrated on dates where the day and month are both the square root of the last two digits of the year.
"Square root day" only happens nine times during a century. The last one was five years ago, February 2, 2004. The next one is seven years away and will happen April 4, 2016. The final square root day of the 21st century will occur on September 9, 2081.
Square root days fall upon the same nine dates each century.
Full list of holidays
01/01/XX01
02/02/XX04
03/03/XX09
04/04/XX16
05/05/XX25
06/06/XX36
07/07/XX49
08/08/XX64
09/09/XX81
Ron Gordon, a Redwood City, California high school teacher, first created the day for 9/9/81. Ron Gordon sends news releases to world media organizations.
"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.
His daughter has set up a Facebook page for people to share ideas on how to celebrate the day.
Link for Facebook group;
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=2ec0bf27af0f48db95915e01ef9b06e8&gid=53624283910
Here are some comments from the discussion board of the group.
What will you do for square root day?
- I'm thinking of making beetroot sandwiches, with the beetroot cut into squares.
- I will be making stew! With carrots and potatoes and turnips!
- I will be drinking root beer out of a square mug!
- I'll be celebrating my birthday in a very square fashion!
- I will wish my geeky friends "Happy Square Root Day" when I see them! It's hip to be square!
- Celebrating, sharing a 9" square birthday cake!
- I am going to find a mathematician and carve a square root into his chest with a buck knife.
- Drawing square-based (modular) walkway systems in my landscape design class.
- I will be having a 9" square pizza cut into 3x3.
- I cannot wait til 4/4/16 - so many options - square dancing - bigger pizza!.... this is a great day....
- I will Calibrate with Three shots of triple sec at 9:33. !!!
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Aykut Kaynak, JTW
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