Each year, on March 14, it's become traditional for numerophiles and mathematicians to pause and reflect on the most famous of irrational numbers, pi. Pronounced pie, written as π, and summed up by ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – If you wanted a random number, historically you could do worse than to pick a sequence from the string of digits in pi. But Purdue University scientists now say other sources ...

The number pi goes far beyond 3.14. In fact, the mathematical constant has an infinite number of digits after its decimal. On Wednesday morning a Greenwich man made an attempt to set a new world ...

GENEVA, Ill. (WLS) -- If you can barely remember your own phone number, just listen to what a west suburban fifth grader did. March 14 is Pi Day, which most of us probably only remember from our math ...

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 ...

Emma Haruka Iwao grew up fascinated by pi. Now, she's computed over 31 trillion of its digits. Iwao set the newest Guinness World Record for the most accurate value of pi on Thursday. The Google ...

All circles, from onion rings to Saturn’s rings, share a magnificent property: their circumferences stretch about three times longer than their diameters. To be more precise (though still not exact), ...

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 ...