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 ...

When Ainsley Ramsey was in sixth grade she competed in a contest: Who could recite the most digits of pi? Ramsey was determined. "I did 100 digits and I won. And I remember getting a pie to bring to ...

Happy Pi Day! Isn't Pi Day one of the best holidays all year? For last year's Pi Day, I determined a value of pi without even using a circle. How can you top that? I can top it by using pi to find pi.

TOKYO – A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record. Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 ...

David H. Bailey, chief technologist of the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his colleague Richard ...

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 ...

Today is Steak and BJ Day, but if you’re not into such things, you might prefer to celebrate Pi Day. They call it Pi Day because it’s 3/14 (if you do your dates the American way) and 3.14 are the ...

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 ...