Dust off the slide rules and recharge the calculators. Square Root Day is upon us. The math-buffs’ holiday, which only occurs nine times each century, falls on Tuesday — 3/3/09 (for the mathematically challenged, three is the square root of nine).
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Dust off the slide rules and recharge the calculators. Square Root Day is upon us. The math-buffs’ holiday, which only occurs nine times each century, falls on Tuesday — 3/3/09 (for the mathematically challenged, three is the square root of nine).
Here is the rest of the article from AP: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/03/02/state/n161221S74.DTL
