March 14th is “Pi Day,” a faux-holiday that is regrettably celebrated not with delicious fresh-baked pastries, but with feats of mental endurance. I speak, of course, of piphilology — the ancient and ...

Lu and a previous pi-memorizing record holder, Hideaki Tomoyori, who recited 40,000 digits of pi, have said they linked words or images to groups of two, three or four numbers.

In his head, Dan Knights is thinking "Russia overhears a Bostonian rebel marmoset rashly reply heavily." But he's saying: "468440901224953430146549585. " Knights, a University of Minnesota professor, ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH Victoria “Li-Mei” Valverde recited 2,205 digits of Pi at Marina High School today, breaking her previously held record of 612 memorized numbers. “I feel great,” she said after being ...

It is not every day that someone makes a room full of bigwigs look, well, dumb. A group of prominent East Bay residents including Congressman Jerry McNerney and Danville Mayor Mike Shimansky were ...

Israeli theoretical physicist Yehuda Ashkelon set a new Israeli record in memorizing the mathematical constant Pi (π), recalling and reciting 25,333 decimal places. Ashkelon, a Ben-Gurion University ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

For numerology enthusiasts, or anyone superstitious about dates, this is a pretty crazy week. Not only is Friday the 13 th, Saturday is also “Pi Day,” an annual recognition that March 14 is ...

This story originally ran in 2016 but it running again today in honor of Pi Day. It started out as a typical Monday: a disgruntled haze of snooze buttons and mismatched socks, so when I walked into my ...

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ARLINGTON (CBS) -- Third-grader Ike Palter has memorized the first 140 digits of pi. The Arlington boy told WBZ-TV this latest talent is because there hasn't been much else to do during the ...

In Daniel Tammet’s mind, three is a dotted green crescent moon shape, one is a sort of white sunburst and four is a blue boomerang. Every number has a distinct color and shape, making the number pi, ...