The circumference of a circle is the distance around the shape. The ability to round a number to a number of decimal places or to a number of significant figures means that answers can be written to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Every March 14, mathematicians, scientists and math lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign Pi. That's because the date written numerically ...

There is Pi all around us, in ways you may not have seen before. If you remember from school, Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is a number that is usually written as ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

In mathematical terms, pi is the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference. Rounded to two decimal places, it's 3.14. So, March 14 - the 14th day of the third month - is National Pi Day.