We all know pi, at least the first three digits of it. If for some reason you forgot them though, there’s good news. All you need to get that knowledge back is some aluminum foil, ingenuity, and ...

This Pi Day, try calculating everyone’s favourite mathematical constant using balls and a cardboard tube, thanks to a mathematical trick involving the balls’ masses ...

Engineers at StorageReview decided to do something incredibly geeky for this year’s Pi day (March 14 - 3/14) – beat their own record for calculating Pi. Considering that the previous record ...

After a survey found half of British parents admit they would fail their secondary school exams if they had to take them again, MailOnline has collated some sample questions for you to test yourself.

The first example of a computer being to calculate Pi was in 1949, when John von Neumann and chums used ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) to compute 2,037 digits of Pi.

They’re back again, this time doubling the number of digits to 10 Trillion. The previous calculation of 5 Trillion digits of Pi took 90 days to calculate on a beast of a workstation.

NASA engineers use pi to calculate how far the rovers on Mars have travelled, for example.

The importance of the number we now call pi has been known about since ancient Egyptian times. It allows you to calculate the circumference and area of a circle from its diameter (and vice versa ...

Emma Haruka Iwao used Google’s cloud computing infrastructure to compute a new value of Pi to 31.4 trillion digits. Pi — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — is an ...