Today,is Square Root Day. Dust off the slide rules and recharge the calculators. The math-buffs' holiday, which only occurs nine times each century is today. 3/3/09 ( three is the square root of nine). The last such day was five years ago, 2/2/2004 which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away on April 4, 2016... Remember that will you!
I'm not really that much of a math person, although almost 30 years of my working history was in financial instutions, of one sort or another. I was not a good math student in school but I found practical application, not to mention, repetition was the answer for me. In fact, I learned to really enjoy the challenges math provided for me, particularly when calculating interest, doing loan modifications and workouts and working draws for commercial and residential construction and lending. Today's young people learn math in such a different way. When my grandson Ryan ask me quite a few years back to look at his math during one of my Seattle visits, I was amazed at how easy and how much sense it made as opposed to my math education. With the advent of the calculator, I hope the young folks still learn the basics...
Ponder this as my question today, "how long ago did some cashier actually count back your change rather than look at the register and say, your change is $3.41"?
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