The value of pi — the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — has been calculated anew on a super computer, adding 12.8 trillion new decimal digits to its roster, for a total of 62.8 ...

Last year, a Japanese mathematician and a U.S. grad student smashed the world record for calculating the value of Pi. After a manic 371 days of computing, Shigeru Kondo and Alexander Yee reached 10 ...

A decimal number is any number made up of the digits 0 to 9. This can include whole numbers and numbers less than 1. You can use a decimal point to show which digits are whole numbers and which are ...

Kota, Rajasthan: A 21-year-old Indian student has set a Guinness World Record by memorising 70,000 post-decimal digits of Pi, beating a Chinese who had held the record for 10 years. Rajveer Meena, a ...

Packed decimal specifies a method of encoding decimal numbers by using each byte to represent two decimal digits. Packed decimal representation stores decimal data with exact precision. The fractional ...

If you're using Excel to calculate monetary values, then you only have to worry about two decimal places in your numbers. Aligning your numbers to the right automatically lines up the decimal points ...

'Does NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) use' 3.14 'when using pi for calculations, or does it use a value that is about 300 digits after the decimal point?' Is the question that actually arrived ...