March 14 is Pi Day in the US, as the date matches the first three digits of the famous number. On Pi Day 2015, Google announced that a researcher had uncovered the first 31 trillion digits of pi, ...
Archimedes determined the upper and lower range of pi by finding the perimeters of inscribed and circumscribed polygons. By doubling the number of sides of the hexagon to a 12-sided polygon, then a 24 ...
This article has been updated from the original post, which appeared on March 14, 2013. March 14, when written as 3/14, represents the first three digits of pi (π), the ratio of the circumference of a ...
For some, today (July 22) is Pi Approximation Day, but for some others, it is March 14. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. Greek letter π was first used ...
The Acorn Archimedes range of computers was moderately popular, especially in schools, around the time of the Atari ST and Amiga home computer reign. However these ARM powered computers were quite a ...
Happy Pi Day! It's March 14, or 3/14, matching the first three digits of π. π is one of the fundamental constants of mathematics: the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. π is an ...