Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Ainsley in π?

It is. Ainsley is waiting at decimal place 17,022,592.

Spelling Ainsley on a phone

  1. A2
  2. I4
  3. N6
  4. S7
  5. L5
  6. E3
  7. Y9

Ainsley turns into 2467539 on the keypad, 7 digits long.

The spot

Decimal place 17,022,592. That's about 17 million digits into π.

Who lives nearby

  • 7,739 digits back to chisels
  • 10,751 digits back to stammer
  • focuses, 5,302 digits on
  • refuges, 5,388 digits on

Nearest of all: focuses, just 5,302 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

Your name lives where the early digit hunters never reached.

Unroll π at one digit per cm and you'd walk 170 km to reach your name.

The name race

Number 1,793 of 2,007: Ainsley beats 10% of the 2,007 names on this list to its spot.

Ainsley's neighbours on this list

Ainsley is on our list of popular first names in the US.

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§ 3

Your number is in π.*

We looked. All 100 billion digits. Twice, for luck.

A phone number, a birthday like 14/03/1999, a word, or up to four words like i love you. We won't tell anyone what you type. * Probably. 99.995% of ten-digit numbers. The other 0.005% are being difficult.

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