Notice something curious about the date today? 4 April, 2016 is 'Square Root Day'

When Ron Gordon, a mathematics teacher, was writing down the date 9 September, 1981, he realised that there was a curious feature about the numbers in it – 9/9/81 — ‘81’ was the product of 9 squared, 9 was the square root of 81. [caption id=“attachment_2711334” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  There are only nine Square Root Days in every century[/caption] Gordon realised that only nine dates in every century shared a similar attribute and he designated such days “ Square Root Days”. Today — 4/4/16 — is Square Root Day. The previous Square Root Day was observed on 3/3/09, while the one after this will occur on 5 May, 2025 (5/5/25). Lest you think that solving some math problems is the only way to celebrate Square Root Day, Gordon has other ideas. According to him, you can “form a large square root sign, have root beer in square glasses, feed a poor person a square meal, travel by a bus route that is a square root, anything”. Those who come up with the most innovative way to celebrate will win $18 each (a total of $441.6 distributed among 4+4+16 people, i.e. 24 winners). Square Root Day isn’t the only mathematical-themed day. We also have Pythagorean Theorem Day, e-Day, Pi Day, Tau Day, Yellow Pig Day, Pi Approximation Day, and Fibonacci Day. Gordon himself has also tried to institute two other mathematical holidays — ‘Odd Day’ (11/13/15) and ‘Trumpet Day’ (2/2/22, for the sound it makes – two-two-two-two).