STEP 1 - WRAP RIBBON: Take the ribbon and wrap it around a glass. Mark where the ribbon overlaps itself. Image caption, STEP 2 - CUT CIRCUMFERENCE: Cut the ribbon at the point where it overlaps. You ...

Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you think ...

In the mid-20th century, we began launching satellites into space that would help us determine the exact circumference of the Earth: 40,030 km. But over 2000 years earlier, a man in Ancient Greece ...

I’m a journalism student in college, and math is one of the requirements for not only graduation, but also to help me transfer to a four-year school. There are going to be some situations coming my ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

Happy pi day! The date 3/14 is, of course, a poor approximation for π, which has infinite digits (3.1415926...). But that raises a few questions: How many digits have we actually found? And how many ...

Sunday, March 14 is "Pi Day", a celebration of the approximate ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, Pi Day was recognized by Congress in 2009 as well as the United Nations. Locally ...

Time is a flat circle, Matthew McConaughey tells us, neglecting to explain how then we could measure time's circumference to derive its diameter, using pi. (Maybe it's best not to take the sentiment ...

A manufacturer of inspection equipment has applied a high speed, non-contact laser micrometer to measure the circumference, diameter and ovality of cylindrical objects, including cigarettes, filters ...