Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Catherine in π?

Yes! Catherine first turns up at decimal place 215,709,235.

From letters to digits

  1. C2
  2. A2
  3. T8
  4. H4
  5. E3
  6. R7
  7. I4
  8. N6
  9. E3

Type Catherine on a phone keypad and you get 228437463: 9 digits to hunt for.

Catherine in the digits

Decimal place 215,709,235. Roughly 216 million digits in, give or take.

Next door in π

  • 248,298 digits back to knockout
  • 248,298 digits back to knockouts
  • environs, 68,341 digits on
  • infirmary, 120,293 digits on

environs is the nearest famous face, 68,341 digits to the right.

Fun facts

You made π work for this one: 216 million digits first.

At one digit per cm, that's 11.4 million pencils laid end to end.

Among popular names

Catherine turns up earlier than 2% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 1,957 of the 2,007 we found.

Names nearby in π

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

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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