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

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

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 ...

Swiss researchers said on Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude. The constant π is represented in this mosaic outside the Mathematics ...

Pi, a mathematical constant denoted by the Greek letter π, is the ratio of a circle's circumference C to its diameter d: π = ...

It is once again Pi Day (March 14—which is like the first digits of pi: 3 and 14). Before getting into this year's celebration of pi, let me just summarize some of the most important things about this ...

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Happy Pi Day to you and everyone around you! I always like to find something cool to do with pi on Pi Day. What if I just try to determine the value of pi without using pi (which seems obvious). How ...

Pi has been sequenced to its two quadrillionth bit, and the value has been found to be zero. Yahoo engineer Tsz Wo Sze announced on his Apache developer page in August that using a MapReduce programe ...