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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(NBC) - Happy Pi Day! The annual celebration, held every March 14, is your chance to pay tribute to the most famous constant in math and physics: the number you get when you divide the circumference ...

On Pi Day (March 14) we celebrate perhaps the most iconic irrational number on Earth. From its ancient origins to the unanswered questions, here are some of the most surprising facts about pi. When ...