Pi belongs to a huge mathematical group called irrational numbers, which go on forever and cannot be written as fractions.

The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is ...

Denoted by the Greek letter π, this curious little number is approximately 3.14, although computers have calculated it out past 22 trillion digits and counting: 3. ...

It's an irrational number that begins with 2.71828 Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and ...

Norman Wildberger’s mathematical work rejects concepts like irrational numbers. Mathematicians have since developed approximate solutions, but they require integrating concepts like irrational ...

The Bombay High Court today said the Union government's allocation of Amphotericin-B appeared to be irrational, and the supply to Maharashtra was not adequate considering the number of cases in ...

The radicals generally represent irrational numbers, which are decimals that extend to infinity without repeating and can't be written as simple fractions. For instance, the answer to the cubed ...

These "radicals" tend to represent irrational numbers, decimals that extend to infinity without repeating and can't be written as simple fractions. Wildberger said this makes it impossible to ...