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 ...

The number represented by pi (π) is used in calculations whenever something round (or nearly so) is involved, such as for circles, spheres, cylinders, cones and ellipses. Its value is necessary to ...

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 ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian ...

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For thousands of years, mathematicians and scientists have worked on calculating the digits of pi -- a project that could literally go on forever. For now, we at least know the first 100 trillion ...

3.141592 … wait, what comes next? Doesn't matter — for the purposes of today's date, the first three digits of pi are the important ones. Pi Day was the ...