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 ...

Investors and financial analysts often rely on the profitability index (PI) to determine whether the benefits of an investment opportunity outweigh its costs. Essentially, the PI compares projected ...

Developers have set a new record in the endless quest to accurately calculate pi. A team led by Google Cloud’s Emma Haruka Iwao found 100 TRILLION digits of the mathematical constant — smashing the ...

Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, all these celebrations are fine but what about us geeks? Don’t we deserve a day where we can do our own thing and celebrate? Well if you didn’t know it, ...

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., ...

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 ...

A Google engineer named Emma Haruka Iwao has calculated pi to 31 trillion digits, breaking the world record. Pi is an infinite number essential to engineering. She ran her calculations over Google's ...

After starting the process in October 2021, it took the computers until March 2022 to finish. At 157 days, compared to 121 days spent figuring out a shorter number in 2019, it was going more than ...