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Is Alasdair in π?

Found it: Alasdair starts at decimal place 5,958,898 of π.

Alasdair on the keypad

  1. A2
  2. L5
  3. A2
  4. S7
  5. D3
  6. A2
  7. I4
  8. R7

Type Alasdair on a phone keypad and you get 25273247: 8 digits to hunt for.

The spot

Decimal place 5,958,898. Roughly 6 million digits in, give or take.

Next door in π

  • 1,945 digits back to graphic
  • 1,945 digits back to graphics
  • modeled, 335 digits on
  • hugging, 1,930 digits on

modeled is the nearest famous face, 335 digits to the right.

Fun facts

Millions deep! Pack a snack for this trip.

At one digit per cm, that's 313,626 pencils laid end to end.

The name race

In the race through π, Alasdair comes in at number 1,654 of 2,007, ahead of 17% of the 2,007 names.

Names nearby in π

Alasdair is on our list of popular first names in the UK.

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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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