Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Charlie in π?

Found it: Charlie starts at decimal place 19,350,404 of π.

From letters to digits

  1. C2
  2. H4
  3. A2
  4. R7
  5. L5
  6. I4
  7. E3

Letter by letter, Charlie becomes 2427543 (7 digits).

Where it sits

Decimal place 19,350,404. You'd read about 19.4 million digits of π before you reached it.

Who lives nearby

  • 6,638 digits back to minority
  • 19,445 digits back to tourist
  • steelier, 2,007 digits on
  • prawned, 10,008 digits on

steelier is the nearest famous face, 2,007 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

π knows your name! Well, the keypad version of it.

Run the length of 1,843 football pitches and you'd reach your name (one digit per cm).

Among popular names

Number 1,809 of 2,007: Charlie beats 9% of the 2,007 names on this list to its spot.

Charlie's neighbours on this list

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

See every name

§ 3

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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