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In science-fiction scenarios of first contact with extraterrestrials, humans usually bootstrap a common language with mathematics, demonstrating that we know the digits of pi and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal

In recent decades, advances in computing have pushed this familiar constant far beyond the classroom, with powerful supercomputers now calculating pi to trillions of decimal places.

From Science Daily

Classical computers have managed the calculation for molecules as large as pentacene, a chain of five hydrocarbon rings with 22 electrons in “pi” covalent bonds, which govern the molecule’s shape and reactivity.

From Science Magazine

That ratio is pi, which means the circumference is always going to be about 3.14 times as long as the diameter.

From NewsForKids.net

It’s the first Greek letter in the words “periphery” and “perimeter,” and pi is the ratio of a circle’s periphery — or circumference — to its diameter.

From Seattle Times