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, ...

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.

Square root days happen only a few times in a century, and the man who brought the day fame is celebrating his sixth one. Be square and get to the root of it! Celebrate Square Root Day today! Today is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Gordon, 70, of Redwood City, noted, "These days are like calendar comets -- you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day -- and poof--they're gone!" His suggested Square Root ...