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 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 ...

Memorizing four digits worth of pi is no piece of cake. McDonell Central Catholic High School math teacher Tony Reiter’s Pi Day contest, normally held on March 14 each year, yielded a student going ...

43 missing Florida children found, recovered during 'Operation Northern Lights' Law enforcement found 43 endangered children, some as young as 18 months, during a two-week sweep that spanned multiple ...

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 ...

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

Residents from the South Bay to San Francisco who looked to the heavens and saw a fleet of airplanes spewing skywritten digits, it turns out, were being treated to mathematical dessert. Those who ...

Any eyes in San Francisco that weren’t focused on Apple’s announcements yesterday might have noticed something peculiar in the skies over the Bay area. As part of the ZERO1 Biennial—a months long ...

March 14th is “Pi Day,” a faux-holiday that is regrettably celebrated not with delicious fresh-baked pastries, but with feats of mental endurance. I speak, of course, of piphilology — the ancient and ...