Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Brooks in π?

Found it: Brooks starts at decimal place 1,514,896 of π.

From letters to digits

  1. B2
  2. R7
  3. O6
  4. O6
  5. K5
  6. S7

Letter by letter, Brooks becomes 276657 (6 digits).

Where it sits

Decimal place 1,514,896. You'd read about 1.5 million digits of π before you reached it.

Famous neighbours

  • 1,760 digits back to naivete
  • 2,466 digits back to hurried
  • padding, 207 digits on
  • sugared, 1,160 digits on

Nearest of all: padding, just 207 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

Your name lives where the early digit hunters never reached.

You live between naivete and padding. What a street!

Among popular names

In the race through π, Brooks comes in at number 1,399 of 2,007, ahead of 30% of the 2,007 names.

Names close to Brooks

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

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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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