Who said math couldn't be fun? In honor of the Pi Day of the century, 3.1415 (March 4, 2015), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a dizzying math challenge. Hint: every solution will use the ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is celebrating Pi Day (March 14) with a set of four math problems — featuring Martian craters, distant exoplanets, Saturn orbits and eclipses — to be understood ...
It’s deliciously reliable, like cherry pie: Divide the circumference of any circle in the universe by its diameter, and you will always get the same number, pi, aka the Greek letter π. In fact, NASA ...
Evergreen Junior High eighth-grader Haven Bulgar set a new record for math teacher Alex Aiken’s annual pi challenge by memorizing 176 digits. Aiken challenged students to memorize and recite pi in ...
The 2018 NASA Pi Day challenge features math problems used by several of the agency's missions, like the InSight Mars lander, Kepler space telescope and Juno spacecraft at Jupiter.
Troy Ashby believes he has no special memory abilities — anyone who has seen his remarkable pi trick would be inclined to disagree. Mr Ashby, a lecturer at Bermuda College, memorised the mathematical ...