Comments on: Square Root Day revelers to party like it's 3/3/09

The rare holiday occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year.

[another_cissp]

I have not been this excited since the unix clock hit 1234567890 last month.

[JwL3394]

YAY! MY BIRTHDAY IS ON SQUARE ROOT DAY!!!!

[MinniePearlJam]

That's only because your father put his integaer into your mom's variable on July 4th.

[atomD21]

And here I am, totally unprepared for all this wild revelry...I need a better calendar.

[owensbt]

Looking forward to pi day on 3/14/15... or should I be more excited about 3/14/16?

[GovernmentMan]

There is also Mole Day. It's more chemistry than math, but it is mathematical.

[GovernmentMan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_day

[MichaelIngle]

For those who don't know. Mole day is celebrated at 6:02 am on October 23. A mole is 6.02x10^23.

[Fe1d]

Square roots: http://flickr.com/photos/27452744@N08/2632475128/

[butwait]

Happy Square Root Day!

http://bit.ly/c4a0j

[rklrkl]

Hang on - Pi Day is in the "wrong" US format (MMDD) - 0314 - and Pi Approximation Day is the "correct" non-US format (DDMM) - 2207. So how can any country celebrate both?

[pjhenry1216]

By not caring that much.

[calmlunatic]

I'm going to have some carrot cake today.

[tmalper]

I don't like that "Pi Day" is 3/14 (3.14) and "Pi Approximation Day" is 7/22 (22/7), it should be the other way around! -- after all, 22/7 is a better approximation for Pi than 3.14 is.

[MinniePearlJam]

Are you willing to bet your pocket protector on that?

[CollegiateLiving]

I was unprepared for this Holiday!!!! Wish we had a day off work to celebrate~

[MinniePearlJam]

Just one more holiday created by Hallmark and corporate America.

[ZetaZeta_]

If you buy a card for this, or feel you need to buy a card for this, you have serious issues.

[XversusY]

I understand that today is Square Root day but it is also Tone Loc's birthday!! SO, i ask you - Who you got? Square Root vs. Tone Loc - http://xversusy.com/challenges/Square_Root_vs_Tone_Loc/tally/

[oldguytoo]

ouch - too much geek glare.

[allgeektome]

math geeks need more party-time: how 'bout 2/11/2048, 3/4/81, 3/7/2187, 2/6/64,
4/3/64, 8/2/64, 6/6/36, and lots of fireworks on July 4th, 2401...just for starters

[JulianDave]

I'm all for Pi day, but Square Root Day is a stretch. The year is 2009, not 09, and that don't quite come out the same.

[jefferson-grigsby]

Pi Day is observed each March 14 (3.14), while Pi Approximation Day falls on July 22 (roughly equal to 22/7). The first Pi Day was observed in 1988 by staff at the San Francisco Exploratorium, who walked around in circles.

did Those San Francisco 69'ers get The MEMO or are They still going round and round in Circles

C/D = Pi

or is This fuzzy math?

[krokodylkin]

Grisha Krokodylkin here! I'm a mathematician and I would like to add that this indeed is a special day! Our department is going to celebrate the occasion with a LOT OF VODKA!!! We are going to get absolutely HAMMERED and obviously we will be solving a LOT of equations ... many different kinds with square roots all over them! This is going to be the best square root day our mathematicians have seen in a VERY LONG TIME. Time to spark up the grass.

[littleM]

Better square root days are 2/4/16 and 3/9/81.

[Berke.h]

This is way fun! We need more math holidays like these...

(and my birhtday is 3 days after the Pi day, yay).