The circumference of a circle is the distance around the shape. The ability to round a number to a number of decimal places or to a number of significant figures means that answers can be written to ...

Pi is a very long and a very important number, but how many decimal places of it do we really need to know? Dr Karl investigates. In the land of food, a pie is something from an oven that is usually ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

March 14, 2018, is Pi Day — that’s pi, not pie — and on Wednesday, Google marks the 30th anniversary of the math-inspired holiday with a special Doodle. Pi, denoted by the Greek letter “π”, has been ...

Today is Pi Day, so named because the first three digits of pi are 3.14 and the date is March 14—or 3/14 in the format used in the United States. Yes, on most other parts of Earth today is also March ...

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 ...

Pi Approximation Day falls on July 22 (written as 22/7 in the day/month date format). It commemorates the common approximation of the mathematical constant π as 22⁄7, which dates back to Archimedes ...

The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity. By Steven Strogatz This article, ...

Oh, I know you missed it. Really, it wasn't your fault. Pi day fell on a Sunday, so how are you supposed to have pi-day activities in class? Don't let it stop you. You are better than that. Do the ...