Thursday marks Pi Day, otherwise known as 3.14, which marks the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. While the average citizen can easily remember the 3.14 ratio, the exact ratio ...
Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most of us can recall Pi to four or five digits, thanks to high school math, but now a team of Swiss scientists has broken the world record for calculating the mathematical constant. It took three and ...
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 ...
Emma Haruka Iwao grew up fascinated by pi. Now, she's computed over 31 trillion of its digits. Iwao set the newest Guinness World Record for the most accurate value of pi on Thursday. The Google ...