On Square Root Day, the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits in the current year. (For example, today's date is 3/3/09; 3 is the square root of 9).
According to Wikipedia, a Redwood City, California high school teacher named Ron Gordon first created the day for 9/9/81. Square Root Days occur nine times each century. The last day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004; the next is seven years from now, on April 4, 2016.
To celebrate Square Root Day, you could:
- Eat a square meal
- Drink root beer out of square-shaped mugs
- Tie square knots
- Cut root vegetables into cubes (a square on all sides)
- Go square dancing
Great!
ReplyDeleteYou are so clever!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could take complete credit for the meal. However, the cube steaks were first package of meat I found when I opened the freezer, and the root vegetable idea was on many of the Websites I read today.
ReplyDeleteHow fun! Thanks for stopping by my blog. Great minds think alike - the title of our blogs? :-)
ReplyDeleteI was bugged by it being 3/3/2009 - because 2009 is not the square root of 3. But, yes, I know - I'm being nitpicky and a party pooper.
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