Some numbers are useful. Some are famous. And then there is pi, a number so absurdly powerful that humanity has spent thousands of years trying to tame it, failed completely, and then decided to ...

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Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The change of plans came on a road trip. On a beautiful day last April, the ...