STEP 1 - WRAP RIBBON: Take the ribbon and wrap it around a glass. Mark where the ribbon overlaps itself. Image caption, STEP 2 - CUT CIRCUMFERENCE: Cut the ribbon at the point where it overlaps. You ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

A manufacturer of inspection equipment has applied a high speed, non-contact laser micrometer to measure the circumference, diameter and ovality of cylindrical objects, including cigarettes, filters ...

Time is a flat circle, Matthew McConaughey tells us, neglecting to explain how then we could measure time's circumference to derive its diameter, using pi. (Maybe it's best not to take the sentiment ...

In the mid-20th century, we began launching satellites into space that would help us determine the exact circumference of the Earth: 40,030 km. But over 2000 years earlier, a man in Ancient Greece ...