In honor of Pi Day March 14 , CNN lists 10,000 digits of the number pi . The list is based on a mathematical formula that was discovered by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1824 and published in his book " Mathematical Tables for Calculation of Exact Values of Numbers. " WolframAlpha and the Mathematica program provides the calculation .
In honor of Pi Day March 14 , CNN lists 10,000 digits of the number pi . The irrational number is commonly used in circle geometry . WolframAlpha and the Mathematica program provides the calculation .