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  1. Math

    Pi Day Festivities

    Pi Day celebrations take place, appropriately enough, on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. For a glimpse of activities highlighting the enduring fascination of the digits of pi (the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter), take a look at the Exploratorium’s Web pages devoted to pi, then try the links to other weird and […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    Scrabble’s Random Letters

    In the popular SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game, players create words from letters selected at random from a stockpile of 100 tiles. The tiles are laid down on a board 15 squares high by 15 squares wide to form an interlocking, crossword arrangement. Each letter of the alphabet has a particular value and the number of […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  3. Math

    Scrabble’s Random Letters

    In the popular SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game, players create words from letters selected at random from a stockpile of 100 tiles.