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A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Most of us can recall Pi to four or five digits, thanks to high school math, but now a team of Swiss scientists has broken the world record for calculating the mathematical constant. It took three and ...

Pi just got bigger. Google’s Compute Engine has calculated the most digits of pi ever, setting a new world record. Emma Haruka Iwao, who works in high performance computing and programming language ...

NEW DELHI: A team of scientists from Switzerland’s University of Applied Sciences Graubünden claim they have broken the world record for calculating the value of Pi. The researchers used a ...

A researcher from Yahoo, Nicholas Sze, announced this week that he has determined the two-quadrillionth - thats 2,000,000,000,000,000 th - digit of Pi. The feat was achieved using 1,000 of company's ...

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 ...