While traversing the moon’s surface after a planned launch later this year, Astrobotic’s shoebox-sized CubeRover will have some downtime: extra computing power that won’t always be in use. And thanks ...

This is at least my ninth year of writing about Pi Day—here is my post from 2010. Of course it's called Pi Day because the date, 3/14, is similar to the first three digits of pi (3.1415 …). At this ...

(Antonio Iacobelli/Moment/Getty Images) As Pi Day rolls around for another year, researchers at StorageReview, a leading ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A Google employee has broken the world record for calculating pi just in time for the mind-bogglingly long number’s special day. Emma Haruka Iwao spent four months working on ...

Now for the important part. Today, as you may know, is Pi Day. Why today? Because it’s March 14—yes, 3/14—and 3.14 is the value of pi to two decimals. Of course, the actual number continues to an ...

Swiss researchers said on Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude. The constant π is represented in this mosaic outside the Mathematics ...

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A Google employee from Japan calculated the most accurate value of pi at 31 trillion digits and shattered the world record, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday, or "Pi Day." Emma Haruka ...