For all your math-teacher and other math-geek friends: ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- Happy Square Root Day, math geeks | InfoWorld | Weblog | March 2, 2009 | By Robert X. Cringely
Tomorrow may just be another stupid bloody Tuesday to you and me, but to the mathematically inclined it's something a little more special: Square Root Day. On this glorious date, the numbers 03.03.09 form a perfect square. I don't know about you, but I'm planning to celebrate by watching a "SpongeBob SquarePants" marathon while playing with my slide rule. Remember, if you miss tomorrow's SRD, there won't be another one until April 4, 2016, and after that not until May 5, 2025. Square Root Day is one of several numerically inspired holidays -- some real, others totally irrational ... --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- More math geekery here with links: http://weblog.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=http://weblog .infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2009/03/happy_square_ro.html or here if the above wraps unusably: http://preview.tinyurl.com/c9hlqd Love, Dad ------- End of forwarded message ------- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~