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 ...

ARLINGTON (CBS) -- Third-grader Ike Palter has memorized the first 140 digits of pi. The Arlington boy told WBZ-TV this latest talent is because there hasn't been much else to do during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has tripled a previous world record it set for calculating digits of pi only three years ago. Google Cloud was used to calculate 31.4 trillion digits of pi in 2019, a world record later broken ...

Happy Pi Day! We celebrate pi on March 14 because 3-14 gives the first three digits of this famous number. But what’s the big deal about pi anyway? Why does it get a day? Well, for starters, it ...

Each year, on March 14, it's become traditional for numerophiles and mathematicians to pause and reflect on the most famous of irrational numbers, pi. Pronounced pie, written as π, and summed up by ...

StorageReview has broken the world record by calculating Pi to 314 trillion digits. StorageReview also published details of the machine used to perform the calculation, claiming that it has made a ...