A numerical pun, Square Root Day celebrates the alignment of a date into the form of the squaring of a number. For example, May 5, 2025, or 5/5/25, represents 5 x 5 = 25, with the square root of ...

Then there was root-mean-square (RMS) voltage. For those nice sine waves, you took the peak voltage and divided by the square root of two, 1.414 or so. You know that kid in the front of the class?

Square Root Day is a reminder that math is all around us, says Terrence Blackman, chair of the mathematics department at Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York.

The square-root-2 factor is a direct consequence of looking at half of the transform and throwing away the other half. The sine and cosine basis functions of the DFT transform h. Log in to Reply.

Tuesday is 3/3/09 and three is the square root of nine. The math-buffs' holiday only happens nine times each century. The next Square Root Day is April 4, 2016 — 4/4/16. Math lovers don't dispair.

He is the first and probably the only square root president.” Mr Gordon said presidents Polk (#11) Cleveland (#22) and Truman (#33) did not make it. “We’ve had 44 presidents in 229 years ...