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

The most basic explanation of Pi is that it is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter for a circle. That seems simple enough, but it turns out that Pi is an irrational number - so you can't ...

March 14 (UPI) --A 10-year-old British boy celebrated the run-up to the math-themed holiday Pi Day by breaking a world record for the most decimal places of pi recalled in one minute. Bristol student ...

AUSTIN, Texas — It's an event that comes around just once in a century. Math nerds and circle fans everywhere celebrated the "Pi Day of the Century" today, March 14, 2015, at 9:26 a.m. and 53 seconds.

It's World Pi Day — Mar. 14, or 3/14, the first three digits of pi — and to celebrate, Google has announced that one of its engineers, Emma Haruka Iwao, has set a new world record for calculating pi, ...

David H. Bailey, chief technologist of the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his colleague Richard ...

Happy Pi Day! Isn't Pi Day one of the best holidays all year? For last year's Pi Day, I determined a value of pi without even using a circle. How can you top that? I can top it by using pi to find pi.

In Daniel Tammet’s mind, three is a dotted green crescent moon shape, one is a sort of white sunburst and four is a blue boomerang. Every number has a distinct color and shape, making the number pi, ...

For the first time in a century, Pi Day will include on the first five digits of Pi — 3/14/15. To celebrate the mathematical constant on March 14, Chicagoans will have the opportunity to participate ...

NEW YORK – This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, grand gestures and 4,000-word love ...