It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Thursday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

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Pi Approximation Day 2023 is here! On this day, we celebrate the mathematical marvel known as Pi or 3.14. Pi is an irrational number, which means it can never be written as a fraction and has no end.

An algorithm to calculate Pi on IBM’s quantum computers honors Pi Day—and helps us understand how a quantum computer works. Ever since Archimedes hit upon a value for Pi in the third century B.C., ...

You might be familiar with the never-ending number π (pi), which is most relevant for studying circles. But you might not know much about the genius guy who first calculated pi: Archimedes of Syracuse ...

Today is March 14, or "3/14," the first three digits of Pi. It's a day celebrated around the (geek) world as "Pi Day." Pi, of course, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. It ...

Everybody knows the value of pi is 3.14…er, something, but how many people know where the ratio came from? Actually, the ratio came from nature—it’s the ratio between the circumference of a circle and ...

Happy Pi Day! It's March 14, or 3/14, matching the first three digits of π. π is one of the fundamental constants of mathematics: the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. π is an ...