For thousands of years, mathematicians and scientists have worked on calculating the digits of pi -- a project that could literally go on forever. For now, we at least know the first 100 trillion ...

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 ...

Developers have set a new record in the endless quest to accurately calculate pi. A team led by Google Cloud’s Emma Haruka Iwao found 100 TRILLION digits of the mathematical constant — smashing the ...

A Google employee has given us greater insights into the mathematical mystery that is pi (also known to many of us as 3.14). Using the company’s cloud computing services, Google Cloud developer ...

As an irrational number, pi has no end — but that has not stopped computer engineers from chasing its eternal string of decimal places deeper into the unknown. Recently, technology media company ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When I ...

Calculating 100 trillion digits of pi is a feat worth celebrating with a pie. (Google Graphic / The Keyword) Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google ...

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, ...

The nerdiest day of the year is officially here again: March 14, or Pi day. Yes, the day when all jokes end in 3.1415. To celebrate Pi day—the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter—in a ...

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 ...