Square Root Day

James Joyner · Tuesday, March 3, 2009 · 2 Comments

Donald Sensing passes along word that, “Today is 3-3-09, a date that calendar keepers call a square root day. Only nine such dates occur per century. The last was 2-2-04 and the next will be 4-4-16.”

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Alex Knapp says:

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 08:42

Hopefully he meant 2-2-04, not 2-2-05…

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William d'Inger says:

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 11:52

Even though it is factually correct, wasting bandwidth on the subject is about as rational as the square root of 2.

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