The latest record-breaking calculation of pi did not come from a sprawling cloud cluster but from a single, meticulously tuned server that pushed the constant to 314 trillion digits. The feat ...

When Linus was a young lad, Linus loved using Super PI, a benchmark that calculates PI (who would have thought). Back in the ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...