Pi Day, which occurs every 14 March – or 3/14, in the US date format – celebrates the world’s favourite mathematical constant. This year, why not try an experiment to calculate its value? All you will ...

It is once again Pi Day (March 14—which is like the first digits of pi: 3 and 14). Before getting into this year's celebration of pi, let me just summarize some of the most important things about this ...

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Happy March 14—time to celebrate everyone’s favorite mathematical constant. Pi, or π, describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Since it was first discovered more than 4,000 ...

One of the most important numbers in math might today be named after the Greek letter π or “pi”, but the convention of representing it this way actually doesn’t come from Greece at all. It comes from ...

Swiss researchers said on Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude. The constant π is represented in this mosaic outside the Mathematics ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It took the ancient Greeks and the infinite power of the circle to make it happen, but the California Academy of Sciences is opening four minutes early on Saturday. It’s going to open ...

An algorithm to calculate Pi on IBM’s quantum computers honors Pi Day—and helps us understand how a quantum computer works. Ever since Archimedes hit upon a value for Pi in the third century B.C., ...

For centuries, Pi was thought to be an unchanging constant defined by the circle. Recent mathematical advances have revealed ...