Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — appears throughout mathematics, including in areas that are completely ...

Depending on how you look at it, Pi Day is a festival of nerds, a math class gimmick, a chance to pause and reflect on the infinite, or just a good excuse to eat a lot of sugar. For these and many ...

Pi (π) is probably the most famous number in mathematics. Not only have experts studied it extensively, but it also fascinates amateurs: books, films and songs have been dedicated to the number. Part ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and ...

It's National Pi Day! Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because the date (3/14) coincides with the numeric value of Pi (the Greek letter written as “π”). Pi is used in math to represent the ratio of ...

We bring you this story in case you want to get baking. That's because Saturday is Pi Day — but it's not just any pi day. It's March 14* of the year '15, or 3-14-15 — the first five digits of the ...

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 proof resolves a nearly 80-year-old problem known as the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture. In doing so, it provides a final answer to a question that has preoccupied mathematicians since ancient times: ...

While many of us at The Bee have liberal arts degrees (OK, all of us on the editorial board, although some took calculus), we would like to take a moment to celebrate Pi Day. More precisely, 3.14159 ...

March 14, written out as 3/14 in the US and a few other countries, is π day, as those are the first three digits of the famous number. π is one of the most important and fascinating numbers in math.

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