Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Anne in π?

Anne is in π. First stop: decimal place 24,262.

Anne on the keypad

  1. A2
  2. N6
  3. N6
  4. E3

Letter by letter, Anne becomes 2663 (4 digits).

Anne in the digits

Decimal place 24,262. You'd read about 24,262 digits of π before you reached it.

Famous neighbours

  • 708 digits back to tubular
  • 887 digits back to Shaquille O'Neal
  • Kurt Gödel, 1,226 digits on
  • optimum, 1,465 digits on

tubular is the nearest famous face, 708 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

Ta-da! Every single digit, right where it should be.

π skipped past your spot 24,261 times before it finally wrote your name.

The name race

In the race through π, Anne comes in at number 464 of 2,007, ahead of 76% of the 2,007 names.

Anne's neighbours on this list

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

See every name

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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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