Pi is an irrational number, meaning it has an infinite number of nonrepeating decimal places. But it turns out, NASA scientists need only a small slice of pi — the first 15 decimal places — to solve ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian ...

What did you do for Pi Day? Play with your Raspberry Pi 400? Eat some pizza or other typically round objects and recite all nine digits you’ve got memorized? That’s about where we were at this year.

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his lightning-fast formulas for π in a notebook, physicists are ...

Google has tripled a previous world record it set for calculating digits of pi only three years ago. Google Cloud was used to calculate 31.4 trillion digits of pi in 2019, a world record later broken ...

UPDATE (March 14, 2019, 1:18 p.m.): On Thursday, Google announced that one of its employees, Emma Haruka Iwao, had found nearly 9 trillion new digits of pi, setting a new record. Humans have now ...

Calculating 100 trillion digits of pi is a feat worth celebrating with a pie. (Google Graphic / The Keyword) Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google ...

A great pie is always worth taking time to savor. So is reciting pi, the irrational number that is central to so much of mathematics. Meet Vaughn Jett, a Duke University Hospital equipment ...

(NBC) - Happy Pi Day! The annual celebration, held every March 14, is your chance to pay tribute to the most famous constant in math and physics: the number you get when you divide the circumference ...

Today is Pi Day, so named because the first three digits of pi are 3.14 and the date is March 14—or 3/14 in the format used in the United States. Yes, on most other parts of Earth today is also March ...

All circles, from onion rings to Saturn’s rings, share a magnificent property: their circumferences stretch about three times longer than their diameters. To be more precise (though still not exact), ...

On Pi Day (March 14), NASA reminded us why we need only a small slice of the irrational number's infinite decimal places to explain most of the known universe. When you purchase through links on our ...