Is my name in π?

Is Alan in π?

Found it: Alan starts at decimal place 49,276 of π.

Alan on the keypad

Letter by letter, Alan becomes 2526 (4 digits).

Decimal place 49,276. You'd read about 49,276 digits of π before you reached it.

surprise is the nearest famous face, 86 digits to the right.

Not too shallow, not too deep: your name sits snugly in the first million.

At one digit per centimetre, you'd need 2,593 pencils in a row to reach your name.

In the race through π, Alan comes in at number 591 of 2,007, ahead of 70% of the 2,007 names.

Alan made our list from the US baby-name charts.

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