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, ...

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 ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...

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 ...

A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer ...

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 ...