Results tagged “math”

So March * 3 = (200)9, making today a Square Root Day (both the number of the month and the day are the square root of the last two digits of the year). We just won't know this sort of happiness again until April 4, 2016, unless you count Pi Day, which is coming up on March 14. March is just filled with math goodness! According to the Facebook group and Wikipedia, "One suggested way of celebrating the holiday is by eating square radishes, or other root vegetables cut into shapes with square cross sections." Enjoy that. more ›

Unfortunately, the US as a whole still lags behind at 539, which could mean that while we won the race to the Moon, even Latvia could beat us to Mars. Here's hoping that with a sitting president in office who values math (read: won't insist on manipulating data to suit his needs) and science (read: doesn't believe that humans and dinosaurs shared caves back in the old days) these scores will improve. Until then, Reddit readers may continue to vote this story up as proof that the liberals of Massachusetts are, in fact, smarter than the rest of the country. more ›