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A 100-year-old pi trick might hint at deeper cosmic secrets

For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical ...
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A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature

In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

A Century-Old Calculation For Pi Might Help Explain the Secrets of the Universe

Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s formula for Pi can help with calculating black holes, studying percolation, or investigating turbulence.
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Sweet trick: Student can recite 200 digits of pi

ELKHART – Students memorize hundreds of facts for classwork, but one Elkhart Memorial High School student took it upon himself to commit 200 digits to memory. Ryan Cart, a freshman, memorized 200 ...
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How long does it take to calculate 100 trillion digits of pi? Ask Google

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 ...