Joshua Foer can remember anything, including the first 100 digits of Pi. The former U.S.A. Memory Champion explains how he—and you—can memorize anything using the major system technique, which ...

March 14th is “Pi Day,” a faux-holiday that is regrettably celebrated not with delicious fresh-baked pastries, but with feats of mental endurance. There are two kinds of people on Pi Day: The kind who ...

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 ...

It’s Pi Day – the day that math geeks across the globe collectively pause to celebrate the first three digits of pi, or 3.14. The mathematical constant, which is the ratio of a circle’s circumference ...

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 ...

We’re not taking apple or cherry pies or pizza pie. Monday, March 14, or 3/14, is Pi Day. Pi is an important number in math. It represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It’s ...

The unique holiday was founded in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw. Every March 14, mathematicians, scientists and math lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign ...

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 ...

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