A single server smashed the pi world record, churning out 314 trillion digits in 110 days.

Now for the important part. Today, as you may know, is Pi Day. Why today? Because it’s March 14—yes, 3/14—and 3.14 is the value of pi to two decimals. Of course, the actual number continues to an ...

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 ...

(Antonio Iacobelli/Moment/Getty Images) As Pi Day rolls around for another year, researchers at StorageReview, a leading ...

As people celebrate Pi Day this March 14, the mathematical constant continues to be part of everyday life for scientists and ...

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March 14 is Pi Day for 3.14, an important concept that touches almost all aspects of math and science. Let’s dish up some fun with all things pi. In math, pi is what’s known as an irrational number — ...

Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, ...

The holiday was created in 1988 by Larry Shaw, a physicist at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco.