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

The number represented by pi (π) is used in calculations whenever something round (or nearly so) is involved, such as for circles, spheres, cylinders, cones and ellipses. Its value is necessary to ...

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, ...

Today is March 14th, or Pi Day because 3.14 is March 14th rendered in month.day date format. A very slightly better way to celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is July 22nd, ...

For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of 8-bit machines through the middle of the decade was to transfer their range and ...

Sometime after 1938, a forger, perhaps oblivious to the document's historic nature, tried to boost its value by painting Byzantine-style illuminations on a few of its ...

When most people hear the name Archimedes, they picture a gaunt figure with a long beard screaming "Eureka!" and running around the streets naked, dripping with bathwater. Whether such a scene ever ...