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When you are with someone as geeky as you… You do weird things, like celebrating Square Root Day!
This unofficial holiday comes but nine times a century. The numbers of the calendar align in special way. dd and mm are each the square-roots of yy. We recently had a square root day: March3, 2009.
3×3=9, √9=3
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Square Roots, ginger and radish, very original isn’t it!
So, how did we celebrate the Square Root day? We celebrated it by eating roots – radish and ginger. Cut in shapes with square cross-sections, creating Square Roots! 
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Footnotes: Since many of you won’t notice, let me bring to your attention:
- There are 3 paragraphs in this post,
- Each sentence in this post has 9 words,
- There are 9 sentences,
- A group of 3 square root symbols appear thrice,
- The third root in the picture above is actually a potato. It is dedicated to all the people who argue that potato is a root.
Update:
The next mathematically significant day is the Pi (π) day: 3.14 (March 14). I am going to bake (guess what) a pie! This is a strange tag, but I am tagging Odzer to bake a pie, Jeruen and Rambodoc to either bake or buy one, Paul to share a memorable pie story and Gopinath to write a humorous post about people doing weird things. Who else wants to participate? More the merrier! Remember guys, March 14th!
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A memorable pie story? I’ll see if I can remember one. If I can, I write it up for the 14th.
↵Cool, thanks Paul!
↵I totally spaced on Saturday and didn’t write up my pie story! Instead, I got wrapped up in re-doing the look of my blog. Zounds!
↵Ah Paul, no worries, whenever you post something, simply put a link back. I baked a pie, you redesigned your website, not bad!
↵Belated, happy square root day!!
↵next would be 4/4/16 ?
Thanks Kaushal, Yeah, the next one is 7 years away!
↵When will you kids learn English the right way? Didn’t you pay attention in spelling class? I will celebrate Pee Day, right away. Peep-peep!
↵Rambodoc, how did it go? Oh wait, I don’t wanna know…
↵Interesting and wondering …
U have way too much time on ur hands
nyways have a nice day
↵Prax, lol yeah some of this stuff is important too, isn’t it!
↵This is just plain amazing!
Square root day and pie day! LOL!
I can not bake a pie, so I shall have a pie on Pie Day!
↵Aathira, welcome to the Pi day celebrations!!
Cool, isn’t it!
↵@ Priyank : You did not eat turnip, parsnips or carrots. Tsk tsk! Severe disappointment. I will put March the 14th in my calendar then….I am looking forward to the Pie day then.
↵Odzer, it was close to midnight when this brilliant idea struck us. So we used whatever we had. Carrots were consumed only few hours earlier, damn!
↵lol…I love these holidays..:)
↵Thanks Lakshmi!
↵What would Astrix and Obelix call someone who is mad about roots?
Tap. Tap.
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That was a good one!
↵Sometimes you think that there are certain things which could never happen and then the surprise happens!
↵Seriously, square root day???
Amit
Why not !
↵Grrrrr…. That’s because I haven’t used my oven before. Ok, not true, I’ve used it, once. Just once, when I made mushrooms with spinach and goat cheese.
Besides, I am still on the road on Pi Day. I won’t be back home until Sunday night. If you’ll take a rain check, I’ll figure something out.
↵Aha! I guess its time to use your oven now! Sure, rain check is fine, have a good trip!
↵This is amusing! I liked the idea Priyank
↵Thanks Gauri, you know I like intellectual stuff!
↵Guess what Priyank? tomorrow is a Holi-day
↵so u better celebrate it !
Yay! To Holi. Hope you had a colorful one.
↵Very interesting!!
↵Deepika, yeah, what are you going to do on Pi day?
↵Oh, wow, a post on these matters. Am glad am back here after the Intl Woman’s Day…hey..wait a minute..I don’t celebrate it..as I am neither a sexist nor a feminist.
Probably you are aware, I believe in equality of all human beings.:)
↵Welcome back Celine! I don’t think you have to be sexist or feminist to celebrate woman’s day. Its just another day like childrens day or the newly started Men’s day!
↵Priyank, This is amusing. Belated Square Root Day
Now looking forward to Pie.
↵Thanks Solilo, happy Square Root day to you too! I’ve just finished baking a pie, will post pictures soon.
↵I have done this Pi Tag today. Sorry, couldnt do it on 14th as we had a family gettogether on that day to attend.
↵OMG! Absolutely smashing hilarious and A+ stuff! Gopinath, thankyou so very much! You are a humor guru afterall
↵….I am leaving the house now! Kidding aside this is so cool, pie and square roots, perfect food, lol. Priyank you rock! Anna
↵Thanks Anna!
↵Very original and creative post…hats off!
↵hehe, Thanks! But the concept of square root day is not mine, I wikipediasurfed to it somehow!
↵A very nice information you had shared among all. So you had holiday on the square root day? Please do notify me such amazing comments via e-mail.
Thanks,
Amod.
Footnote :- You must have noticed there are 3 sentences each of 9 words. A bit late though even i have celebrated the day with you.
↵Thanks Amod! Very nicely written!
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this was hilarious. and the TAG too a fun tag. am looking forward to reading all your tag-pie-posts.
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Thanks Trisha!
↵In my opinion Pie-day shud b celebrated by all Indians, as it is coined by an Indian Mathematician. What u say, priy?
↵Yess but celebrating ‘days’ is very much a western concept, isn’t it!
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