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Square Root Day

· 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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  1. Alex Knapp says:
    Tuesday, 3 March 2009 at 08:42

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

  2. William d'Inger says:
    Tuesday, 3 March 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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