It is once again Pi Day (March 14—which is like the first digits of pi: 3 and 14). Before getting into this year's celebration of pi, let me just summarize some of the most important things about this ...

Pi has been sequenced to its two quadrillionth bit, and the value has been found to be zero. Yahoo engineer Tsz Wo Sze announced on his Apache developer page in August that using a MapReduce programe ...

Swiss researchers said on Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude. The constant π is represented in this mosaic outside the Mathematics ...

In August, 2010, [Alexander Yee] and [Shigeru Kondo] won a respectable amount of praise for calculating pi to more digits than anyone else. They’re back again, this time doubling the number of digits ...

Happy Pi Day! No, that doesn't mean it's time to stuff your face with pastry-based foodstuffs, what it actually refers to is a celebration of the Greek letter of Pi - the symbol that represents the ...

Pi Day, which occurs every 14 March – or 3/14, in the US date format – celebrates the world’s favourite mathematical constant. This year, why not try an experiment to calculate its value? All you will ...

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The classic probability experiment known as Buffon’s needle produces a statistical estimate of the value of pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. The idea of estimating pi by ...

One of the ways that Pi Mu Epsilon promotes scholarship in mathematics is through the publishing of the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. The sole purpose of this journal is to present papers and mathematical ...