Comments on: Celebrating Square Root Day

By: Jacquilynne

Jacquilynne — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:11:00 +0000

That is quite awesome, Steven. Alas, in 2003, I was only turning 26.

The biggest advantage I’ve found in being born on 3/3 — an advantage shared by those who’re born on 4/4 and 5/5 and such — is that I don’t have to figure out whether forms are written as month/day or day/month when they ask for my date of birth. I can just go with 3/3 in either direction ;)

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:12:00 +0000

This is not really about square root day but about numbers and birthdaysâ€¦
There are 6 kids in my family, 4 of us girls, and 2 boys. 3 out of 4 girls have birthdays that fall on the 22nd of the month. But then my birthday falls on the 3rd. I have always felt left out. But my mom would go, “Oh you know itâ€™s ok, your brotherâ€™s birthdays are on the 8th and one is on the 24th. So if you multiply your bday, 3, to your brotherâ€™s, 8, that is equal to 24″. And Iâ€™m like, Ok, I still belong to this family (of geeks) haha

By: KT

KT — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:39:00 +0000

We did Mole Day in high school, too.

Not math-y, but my driver’s license expires on 11/1/11. Line Line Line Line Line Line Line. I get weird looks when I write my expiration date on checks. It is a palindrome, though. That’s pretty cool.

Interesting. reCaptcha has some numbers in it that turned out to be the phone number of a collision place about 1 hour from here. Sneaky advertising?

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:56:00 +0000

I retract my last comment, I read it too fast and didn’t realize that the topic returned to square root day. Oops.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:51:00 +0000

Shouldn’t pi day be March 14 2016, 3-14-16?

By: ZenBlue

ZenBlue — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:55:00 +0000

I’m gathering together all my imaginary friends to celebrate the square root of minus one.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:35:00 +0000

“We should do something fun in addition.” Very cute, Miss Cellania.

By: Sarah in CA

Sarah in CA — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:54:00 +0000

“I donâ€™t know about you, but Iâ€™m planning to celebrate by watching a â€œSpongeBob SquarePantsâ€ marathon while playing with my slide rule.”

If you put your mind in the gutter… this is the funniest thing I have read in a very long time! It’s even funnier because my son watches it and I have seen every episode, many times.

Apologies to Mr Cringely. I love his books and column so this is purely all in (mathematical) fun.

By: Wendy!

Wendy! — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Steven, I think it is cool, and I am suitably impressed. Cooler than my upcoming birthday next year. I would like to invite you to my birthday party on 10/10/2010 (10/10/10) when I turn 50…

By: Gayle

Gayle — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:21:00 +0000

the 5 is backwards, Jonny! that’s as far as I have pi memorized, too, which i’m kind of sad about. time to start memorizing, i have a week and a half!