The latest record-breaking calculation of pi did not come from a sprawling cloud cluster but from a single, meticulously tuned server that pushed the constant to 314 trillion digits. The feat ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical ...

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.

KUSA – If you're a math nerd, March 14 is a pretty magical day. And this year, 03/14/15 is especially awesome. And while some use Pi Day as an excuse to eat pie (the food)/make puns, others use Pi Day ...

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 ...

Every now and then, you look up in the sky and you might catch a message in the clouds. Usually it’s an advertisement, or clouds shaped like animals, or some guy proposing to this girlfriend in a ...

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 ...

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 ...