[Ouctm-l] Happy Square Root day!

[Robert Klein]

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 >From Yahoo News, Monday, March 2, 2009. See
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_on_fe_st/odd_square_root_day
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3/3/09: Math fans to celebrate Square Root Day

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Dust off the slide rules and recharge the
calculators. Square Root Day is upon us.

The math-buffs' holiday, which only occurs nine times each century,
falls on Tuesday - 3/3/09 (for the mathematically challenged, three
is the square root of nine).

"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, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get
people excited about the event.

The winner gets, of course, $339 for having the biggest Square Root  
Day event.

Gordon's daughter even set up a Facebook page - one of a half-dozen
or so dedicated to the holiday - and hundreds of people had signed up
with plans to celebrate in some way.

Celebrations are as varied: Some cut root vegetables into squares,
others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.

The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided
with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.

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