It's World Pi Day — Mar. 14, or 3/14, the first three digits of pi — and to celebrate, Google has announced that one of its engineers, Emma Haruka Iwao, has set a new world record for calculating pi, ...

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., ...

A Google employee from Japan calculated the most accurate value of pi at 31 trillion digits and shattered the world record, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday, or "Pi Day." Emma Haruka ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The nerdiest day of the year is officially here again: March 14, or Pi day. Yes, the day when all jokes end in 3.1415. To celebrate Pi day—the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter—in a ...

The never-ending number has led to ingenious algorithms used to calculate it with precision, in the process expanding the boundaries of what computers can do. High-Performance Computing If you think ...

Ed Karrels, a Master's student, created a computer program to calculate pi and he's already reached the ten-quadrillionth unit. That beats the 2010 record previously set by a team from Yahoo. Karrels ...