A data storage company has decoded more than 100 trillion digits of pi — smashing the world record for calculating the never-ending number. Unraveling this hefty slice of pi required the equivalent ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A Google employee has broken the world record for calculating pi just in time for the mind-bogglingly long number’s special day. Emma Haruka Iwao spent four months working on ...

Math lovers celebrate today (3/14) as Pi Day, in honor of the irrational number pi. Pi, or π, is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is an irrational number, ...

Math fans, celebrate. Today is Pi Day, a holiday that celebrates the world’s most famous irrational number. What are irrational numbers, you ask? As Penn State Berks professor Joni Queen describes ...

Ah, mathematical holidays. Pi Day is a celebration of the irrational number that is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It occurs every March 14 (because π is equal to 3.14159.

March 14, 2018, is Pi Day — that’s pi, not pie — and on Wednesday, Google marks the 30th anniversary of the math-inspired holiday with a special Doodle. Pi, denoted by the Greek letter “π”, has been ...

At precisely 1:59 a.m. on Sunday, Joe Anderson will arise at his parents’ home and begin reciting, by memory, the first thousand digits of pi: “3.14159265358979323846. ... “ Mr. Anderson has performed ...

The proof resolves a nearly 80-year-old problem known as the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture. In doing so, it provides a final answer to a question that has preoccupied mathematicians since ancient times: ...

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Pi Day is a favorite holiday for both food lovers and mathematicians. For the foodies, the reasoning is simple. Pi Day brings discounts and deals for people looking to grab a pizza to celebrate the ...