Last year, a Japanese mathematician and a U.S. grad student smashed the world record for calculating the value of Pi. After a manic 371 days of computing, Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee reached 10 ...
WASHINGTON (7News) — It's Friday, March 14 —3/14, the day that every math nerd eagerly anticipates each year. Known around the world as "Pi Day," it’s a time to celebrate one of mathematics' most ...
If there was ever a magical number, it is pi, the mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi appears in countless formulae in mathematics and ...
Today is Pi Day, a time to celebrate the never-ending number that helps us calculate the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Here in the U.S., Pi Day has officially become a "thing" — ...
The snowstorm named Stella ruined Pi Day for math teachers across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, as they were stuck at home instead of in their classrooms celebrating 3.14 with their students. Pi is ...
The value of pi — the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — has been calculated anew on a super computer, adding 12.8 trillion new decimal digits to its roster, for a total of 62.8 ...
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, have demolished the previous world record on the constant pi, more than doubling the amount of decimals to 2.5 trillion. They used a massive parallel ...