An algorithm to calculate Pi on IBM’s quantum computers honors Pi Day—and helps us understand how a quantum computer works.

Archimedes’ treatise Measurement of a Circle — which helped spread his process for calculating pi around the world, according to the American Mathematical Society —was part of this manuscript.

An example of how to apply Archimedes's algorithm. Image credit: Fredrik via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Between 250 BCE and about 1500 CE, if you wanted to calculate pi, polygons were all ...

Archimedes' method of approximating π with polygons, and similar techniques developed in China and India, would be the dominant way mathematicians would approach the calculation of the digits π ...

I’m not really entirely sure what to think of this WikiHow article on an unorthodox method to calculate pi by hurling hundreds of frozen hot dogs around the room, except I would imagine most ...

Archimedes, a Greek mathematician who lived in Sicily, was the first person to calculate the iconic first digits of pi, 3.14.

The use of pi can be traced back to several ancient mathematicians, including Archimedes. It represents the ration of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which equals about 3.14.

Archimedes' method of approximating π with polygons, and similar techniques developed in China and India, would be the dominant way mathematicians would approach the calculation of the digits π ...