Math Nerds Party like it’s 3/3/09!
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Goose--before he started hanging out with Maverick
In case anyone missed it, today was “Square Root Day.” The holiday, celebrated by pocket protector-wearing math geeks–I mean–aficionados everywhere only comes nine times each century, about the same frequency as the KISS farewell tour.
In any case, the last one occured over five years ago and the next one won’t occur for another seven so I hope you had a great time. While it’s not quite up to par with “Talk like a Pirate Day,” it does offer the numerically inclined a chance to have a good chuckle at the rest of us who need a calcultor to figure out how many three cent stamps are in a dozen.
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