Happy Square Root Day!

Today is Square Root Day! "a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9." {as reported by Steven Musli from CNET}

Square root day only occurs 9 times in a century, the last one being 2/2/04......which happens to be MIRIAM's BIRTHDAY!? I knew 2 + 2 was 4 and that was a cool birthday but since I can't even remember how to do fractions, the whole square root thing never occurred to me! What fun!

"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day--and poof--they're gone," Ron Gordon {again,from Steve at CNET}