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 ...

Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — ...

Pi is an irrational number, meaning it has an infinite number of nonrepeating decimal places. But it turns out, NASA scientists need only a small slice of pi — the first 15 decimal places — to solve ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Google employee has broken the world ...

62.8 trillion. That’s the literally incomprehensible length of decimals researchers are now able to calculate for the number Pi. Announced on Monday by Sweden’s University of Applied Sciences ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — ...