May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- In case you didn't know it, Monday is Square Root Day. It's 4-4-16. As you'll take note, both the day and month are the square root of the last two digits of the year.

Mark your calendar for Monday, May 5, which marks a rare mathematical holiday. This May 5, 2025, is Square Root Day, an event that only happens nine times each century. It occurs when the day and ...

Indians are gearing up to celebrate Square Root Day on May 5th, a rare occurrence where the day and month are square roots of the year's last two digits. American schoolteacher Ron Gordon, who created ...

Happy Square Root Day! Apparently, April 4, 2016 is one of the unofficial holidays that occur when the month and day are the square root of the last two digits of the year. (In this case, month number ...

Today is a special day for those who have such vast brains that there’s room for numbers to go frolicking around with wild abandon, networking socially and sometimes forming little numerical cliques, ...

Years ago, no math education was complete without understanding how to compute a square root. Today, you are probably just ...