March 14 is Pi Day in the US, as the date matches the first three digits of the famous number. On Pi Day 2015, Google announced that a researcher had uncovered the first 31 trillion digits of pi, ...

Archimedes determined the upper and lower range of pi by finding the perimeters of inscribed and circumscribed polygons. By doubling the number of sides of the hexagon to a 12-sided polygon, then a 24 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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., ...

In a dimly lit monastic scriptorium in13th-century Constantinople, a group of scribes unknowingly scrubbed away what could have been one of humanity’s most significant scientific manuscripts.