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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This article has been updated from the original post, which appeared on March 14, 2013. March 14, when written as 3/14, represents the first three digits of pi (π), the ratio of the circumference of a ...
The Acorn Archimedes range of computers was moderately popular, especially in schools, around the time of the Atari ST and Amiga home computer reign. However these ARM powered computers were quite a ...
Happy Pi Day! It's March 14, or 3/14, matching the first three digits of π. π is one of the fundamental constants of mathematics: the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. π is an ...