Last year, a Japanese mathematician and a U.S. grad student smashed the world record for calculating the value of Pi. After a manic 371 days of computing, Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee reached 10 ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — It's Friday, March 14 —3/14, the day that every math nerd eagerly anticipates each year. Known around the world as "Pi Day," it’s a time to celebrate one of mathematics' most ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an American entity that conducts aeronautical and aerospace research, told through its website that prior to the Pi Day several users agreed ...

Students will come to learn Indian contributions to key mathematical systems and how important they were to the advancement of civilization. Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared futures for ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, have demolished the previous world record on the constant pi, more than doubling the amount of decimals to 2.5 trillion. They used a massive parallel ...

If there was ever a magical number, it is pi, the mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi appears in countless formulae in mathematics and ...

In a recent work [6], Borwein and Borwein derived a class of algorithms based on the theory of elliptic integrals that yield very rapidly convergent approximations to elementary constants. The author ...

Today is Pi Day, an annual celebration of the famous mathematical concept that has fascinated people for millenia. But what exactly is π (pronounced like the word "pie"), and where did the concept ...