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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on March 03, 2009, 02:34:07 PM
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Hey, bijou you have 80 messages, 0 are new
Total time logged in: 80 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes.
and what's more, it's square root day!
Math lovers and numerologists take note: Today, March 3, 2009, is square root day.
The unofficial holiday comes around but nine times a century, when the numbers of the calendar align so that the month and day are each equal to the square root of the year as expressed in two-digit form. (In today's case, 3/3/09, 3 is the square root of 9—in other words, 32 = 3 x 3 = 9.) Square root days arise in every year whose last two digits are a perfect square, or a number whose square root is a whole number: The last square root day was on February 2, 2004 (2/2/04), and the next occurrence will be on April 4, 2016 (4/4/16).
A square root day group on Facebook, boasting more than 2,400 members, suggests celebrating the minor mathematical oddity by eating radishes or other roots—cut into spot-on squares, of course.
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link (http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=square-root-day-3309-is-upon-us-2009-03-03)
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I think all those "8"s are a bad omen, bijou.
Oh no, that means I'll have to burn some sage and cleanse my chakras. :(
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I think all those "8"s are a bad omen, bijou.
8's are considered a lucky number in China