For thousands of years, mathematicians and scientists have worked on calculating the digits of pi -- a project that could literally go on forever. For now, we at least know the first 100 trillion ...

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 Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao and her colleagues once again claim to have calculated Pi to a new record number of digits. Iwao says that the team has calculated the mathematical ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Every March 14, mathematicians, scientists and math lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign Pi. That's because the date written numerically ...

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A data storage company has decoded more than 100 trillion digits of pi — smashing the world record for calculating the never-ending number. Unraveling this hefty slice of pi required the equivalent ...

This is at least my ninth year of writing about Pi Day—here is my post from 2010. Of course it's called Pi Day because the date, 3/14, is similar to the first three digits of pi (3.1415 …). At this ...

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 ...

A U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million ...