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Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi—a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Swiss university Fachhochschule Graubünden claim that they’ve broken the world record for the most calculated digits of pi, a mathematical constant that describes the ratio of a ...