For those math geeks ready to party hearty, Square Root day is back. These days come only nine times each century and March 3, 2009 is one such day. (3/3/09 or the square root of nine). Citizens should be cautious as pocket-protector and pencil laden math fiends hit the streets across America looking for some crazy fun with calculators and multiplication tables. It is the one day that you can party like it is the 1999 Math Game.
Square Root Day comes with contests in Redwood, California. The prize is a date with an actual non-inflatable person. Ok, I lied, it is $339.
The last Square Root day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which happened to coincide with Groundhog Day.
Women named Leslie are particularly at risk because geeks can spell their names on calculators. (That is how I won over my wife). Women or men named Leslie may want to go by Lisa or Larry until after midnight when the mathophiles return to their lairs.
For those who find themselves cornered by math geeks seeking a good time, here is a couple of tips.
First, do not fall for the suggestion of “coming up stairs for some long division” or to “look at my scribblings.”
Second, if asked by math toughs what you think about Archimedes, Euclid, Sir Isaac Newton, Pythagoras, Blaise Pascal, Carl Gauss, Aryabhatta, Ramanujam, just say that you like them all and keep walking.
Third, if you are surrounded, throw out a difficult but intriguing math problem like Pierre de Fermat’s mind teaser: propose that xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. That took 350 years to solve. As they debate it, walk away quietly.
Albert (Love is all relative) Einstein once said that “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” Yet, it was on Square Root Day that he got really frisky as shown on this fetching beach shot:
He would often prowl the beaches on Square Root Day, looking for acute girls with perfect linear equations.
For those math geeks heading out to try to conjugate, there are a couple of math pick up line sites that can help here and here. Some are a bit risky like “I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.” One of my favorites is “Honey, you’re sweeter than pi.” It is enough to make the strongest math major swoon.
Go forth Math Geeks and multiply.
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JT:
I can deal with many things which shock the psyche, but Einstein a cross-dresser? Yeesh! Where did those beach shoes come from? If he’s looking for beach bunnies, I suggest a change of footwear. Ok they do match the outfit.
Yikes – I don’t think most women would wear those shoes, mespo!
de Feramt’s not so hard: n=5;x=3;y=4;z=7. I suppose it would be harder if the the “n”‘s were powers rather than multipliers, but that’s cheating. Of course you know, de Fermat was both lawyer and mathematician and conveniently omitted his proof in the margin of his paper claiming the margin was too small. A Princeton Professor solved it centuries later and it only took 200 pages.
I just heard one teacher’s celebratory idea–taking root vegetables and cutting them into squares! GROAN, but sounds fun!!!
This is a glorius day! And this just a week or so after Engineers Week, my god its too much for a geek to contemplate.
Thanks to Prof. Turley for recognizing the mathematically inclined!
Engineer joke:
2 engineering students are walking on campus and one says to the other “where did you get that great bike?” “Well, I was walking to class the other day and this very cute coed threw her bike down, stripped and said take what you want, so I took the bike”. The other says “yes, very good choice the clothes would not have fit”
Math. It’s not just for geeks. Criminals like it too.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all
I’m glad it’s square root day. I’ve been waiting for an excuse to share that link. Further example that a tool is only as good as the tool user.
mespo,
I’ll have to say your reaction to the solution for Fermat was similar to mine. “He must have had huge margins!”
Party at the math club tonite from _/81 PM to _/144 PM.
Buddha:
an example of Chinese asymmetrical warfare against the US?
Shirley, I mean surely, those pumps Ally is a’warin’ were photoshopped into the photo. Please tell me they were even if that is a white lie.
FFLEO,
Genius and fashion sense hardly ever go hand in hand.
Gnome:
Enough of your intelligent banter. You’re scaring the trolls! Shall I bring the Chex Mix? And btw I’m leaving that swinging crowd at midnight, I can promise you that.
We are working on this, _/576-_/49.
Hey, is anyone else old enough to remember learning how to “extract a square root” right after learning long division?
Raise your hand.
Have any of you ever partied with engineers?
no I thought not or you would not be so insensative. We used to put law students under the table.
Bron
I, for one, enjoyed the bike joke.
Bron,
“an example of Chinese asymmetrical warfare against the US?”
lol
The possibility occurred to me, but that might be too subtle even for the Chinese! If so, it would be the slickest military move of all recorded history and I’d have to give them a standing ovation.
Buddha:
I dont know, 2 Chinese Col. penned a paper about asymmetrical warfare against the US and 2 of the things I remeber were using planes as missles and disrupting wall st. Bin Laden did both on 9/11.
Call me a little conspiracy nut but…………
Every grade school bully knows that ‘pie r round’ and ‘cakes r square’, thereby soundly refuting the mathematical equation:
Pi * r^2
“propose that xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. That took 350 years to solve.”
I must be missing something, because that seems to be easily false. (For example, let n = 3. A solution would be x=3, y=3, z=6.)
here is actual equation and a link:
“No integral values of x, y, z can be found to satisfy the equation x**n+y**n = z**n (dbl * meaning raised to power of n); if n be an integer greater than 2. This proposition has acquired extraordinary celebrity from the fact that no general demonstration of it has been given, but there is no reason to doubt that it is true.
Probably Fermat discovered its truth first for the case n = 3, and then for the case n = 4. His proof for the former of these cases is lost, but that for the latter is extant, and a similar proof for the case of n = 3 was given by Euler. These proofs depend on shewing that, if three integral values of x, y, z can be found which satisfy the equation, then it will be possible to find three other and smaller integers which also satisfy it: in this way, finally, we shew that the equation must be satisfied by three values which obviously do not satisfy it. Thus no integral solution is possible. It would seem that this method is inapplicable to any cases except those of n = 3 and n = 4.”
here is link:
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html
Bron,
It sounds more like coincidence to me and for one main reason: money. If it had been a purposeful attack by the Chinese, it may have been tactically subtle, but strategic blunder. The Chinese government is heavily leveraged into Credit Default Swaps and it’s kicking their butt. They would have stepped into their own bear trap so to speak as they are taking a huge hit from our economic crisis as well. Plus, it would require too many “unknowables” to execute. How could they be sure Li’s model would be adopted at all? More to the tactics, how could you predict a time frame for collapse accurately? If not impossible, it would be difficult to do with any degree of precision or accuracy. And you’d need to know the timing, just like any attack, so you could execute ancillary and support projects in a timely fashion. The model itself is visibly limited/defective upon inspection. Even Li himself warned about the model’s deficiencies. The Chinese ability to influence the behavior of Wall St. directly like that simply doesn’t exist – unless they’ve mastered telepathic mind control. No, I have to put the blame of misusing the tool squarely with Wall St. and their uncontrolled greed. That it has done so much damage at such an inopportune time is simply bad luck.
Buddha:
I believe your analysis is correct.
I dont believe Li used his equation to that end as you said even the Chinese are not that subtle.
Costumarily in calculating the square root of a number we must know the nearest of square number as approximation such as in applying calandra method. Recently I have been creating analytical method to calculate the square root that need not the common approximation, even it only need null or zero initial guess.Here I need your information,what appropriate journal or paten instution for publishing the method.THX.
Well, to remember again about the calandra method for calculating the square root of a number please visit to this link :
http://thedaythatidie.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/let-me-be/
On the nice blog there are an example of applying the calandra method posted by miss Denaya Lesa one day after square root day. Maybe useful for you all here.
Maybe the Square Root Day is purposed to remember us that until know the world doesn’t have analytical formulation of the square root. Calandra method as one of the square root method is still need great effort to calculate for example to get √4 without involve the fact that 4=2*2. Even, the several numerical scheme such as bisection, Newton Rapshon, and secant method are not capable to create the square root value using zero initial guess.
I believe if a simple analytical formula for calculating root square of a number is available, the future education on the world will be better.
Rohedi, Budha bless you, a mi ta ba
Rohedi, I believe Budha now is resting in more peace after you posted pi(phi) formula for creating the Pi number at http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=157 . A mi ta ba brother.
Brandon, after searching “pi(phi) formula” on the internet, I met this address http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=148 that posts Rohedi’s general form for pi exact formula that has been used by him to create the pi(phi) formula. But I am confusing , why eqworld forum also promotes generic viagra?