Pi is an irrational number, meaning it has an infinite number of nonrepeating decimal places. But it turns out, NASA scientists need only a small slice of pi — the first 15 decimal places — to solve ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, which is March 14 or 3/14 — the first three digits of an infinite number ...

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 ...

For pie makers, winter can be brutal. "The first two weeks of January, everybody's on a diet. Everybody's on a budget. It's really hard to turn a profit in that first quarter,” said Paula Haney, the ...

Pi, a mathematical constant denoted by the Greek letter π, is the ratio of a circle's circumference C to its diameter d: π = ...

Hey, it's Pi Day! That's right, March 14 every year is celebrated by folks everywhere because it's 3/14 or, like the first three digits of Pi, 3.14. So we all joke around with Pi pies and pizza pie ...

StorageReview has broken the world record by calculating Pi to 314 trillion digits. StorageReview also published details of the machine used to perform the calculation, claiming that it has made a ...

ELKHART – Students memorize hundreds of facts for classwork, but one Elkhart Memorial High School student took it upon himself to commit 200 digits to memory. Ryan Cart, a freshman, memorized 200 ...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Whether you celebrate March 14 for the pi, or the pie, the celebration at Chuck Croatt's Burnsville math classroom had you covered on Friday. "Go ahead and grab a piece of pie," ...

All circles, from onion rings to Saturn’s rings, share a magnificent property: their circumferences stretch about three times longer than their diameters. To be more precise (though still not exact), ...