A former student of mine wrote to ask about π. Specifically, he wondered how, whenever someone announces they've calculated the first 100 billion digits or whatever (actually, the current record is 13 ...

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Pi Day, the International Day of Mathematics, is celebrated on 14 March, due to the date's American shorthand 3/14 – the first three digits of π. The true number of digits after the decimal place ...

This whole series of posts was motivated by a question from a former student of mine: whenever someone announces they've computed a bunch of digits of π, how do we know it's correct? As I pointed out ...

National Pi day 2019 Celebration: Π is an irrational number which means it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction and goes on forever (non-terminating), without repeating (non-periodic). Let’s pay ...

We've gotten really good at generating big datasets. From what we search for on Google to all the stuff we do on Facebook, we generate a lot of data. And there have in turn been a proliferation of ...

Happy birthday, Einstein! But this is also Pi Day, and a very special Pi Day at that. Why so special? The date is 3/14/15, the first five digits in the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its ...

Pi Day is celebrated every year on March 14—when the date can be written as 3.14 in U.S. date format notation. While some official events and celebrations will be curtailed by the novel coronavirus ...