Happens only 9 times a century. 03-03-09. Of course, the square root of 3 is 9. More senseless trivia. LOL

lol good to know

Yep, very cool. While I loathe mathematics, they can be very interesting at times.

I’m going to plant a Valentia orange tree today. Hope it does not develop square roots!!

Wham wham wham whaaaaammmmmm!

Here’s a dumb question… Is the square root of 3, 9? or the other way around?

I know 3 squared = 9, but I think the square root of 9 = 3. I COULD be wrong…

LOL. Bakdoor, speaking of roots, how’s the orchids? I thought about you when I saw the movie “Adaptation” recently. Ever see that one? Oh, the square root of 3 is 1.73205081…Yeah, yeah, I know what you meant though, lol.

LOL! Orchids are freezing in this lousy weather. I have them all on the enclosed porch. Wish all you ‘northerners’ would keep your lousy weather up there! It was 38 degrees this am. LOL!

Let’s kick it up a notch. Nine is the largest numeral. (0-9) The square of 9 is 81. 8+1=9. The reciprocal of 81 has the value of .012345678901234567890…ad infinitum.

Heres the explanation. The unofficial holiday comes around but nine times a century, when the numbers of the calendar align so that the month and day are each equal to the square root of the year as expressed in two-digit form. (In today’s case, 3/3/09, 3 is the square root of 9—in other words, 32 = 3 x 3 = 9.) Square root days arise in every year whose last two digits are a perfect square, or a number whose square root is a whole number: The last square root day was on February 2, 2004 (2/2/04), and the next occurrence will be on April 4, 2016 (4/4/16).

@ onefortheroad Adaptation is one of my favorite movies!

I think I had it and then lost it here Troutstroker… and pardon me as I guess I’m dense, I followed it until you stated; 32=3x3=9. How does 32=3x3? What’s the significance of 32 here?

My Gawd! I would love to contribute to this but I didn’t even learn my times tables!

Unfortunately it’s 3/3/2009… lol …Bite me heathens!

Well our whole dating system is comletley arbitrary. Why 12 months? They’re not even divided evenly. The years are all screwy too. 24 hours? 60 minutes? WTF? Why not 100. I vote for metric time! Anyway, did you know that the square root of a negative number is only imaginary? But the square root of a positve number is actually 2 numbers, one negative and one positve. For instance: The square root of 9 is actually 3 and negative 3, becuase -3 X -3 = 9 However, if you try to take the square root of a negative number, you cannot. There is no real number that is the square root of -9. Therefore we call it an imaginary 3. Crazy, eh?

32=3x3=9…anybody?

yeah, snuffdog, I don’t follow that either. I’m thinking it must be a typo.

I think the 2 in 32 is supposed to be an exponent

3²

I guess it’s a typo, those kind have me scratching…

@Xander - In actual fact after the French revolution they did experiment with a completely new dating system and metric time. Apparently it got so complex squaring everything up that they quitely dropped it.

@ snuffster: Yeah, I know there have been past attempts. I think I read about the one you mention before. I think there was some talk of a new time system in the late 1970s when here in the US there was a push (which died) to go metric. Creating the system is not the hard thing. I was working on one myself. The thing is, its a really hard thing to change all codes, books, clocks, calenders, computers, etc. I don’t know if you watch “The Simpsons” but one of my favorite scenes from an older episode is something forces the mayor to leave office and the city’s charter requires that the intellectual elite take over the city governance in such a situation. Apparantly they adopt a metric time system, as they are having a meeting and the Comic Book Guy (I think) jumps up and says something like “Eighty past ten? I’m late!” and runs off. PS: I don’t feel guilty about hijacking an OT thread!

@farley I totaly agree. he is the best writer in cinema right now. I love how pessimestic he seems yet in a really oddly working posotive kind of way.