Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Darlene in π?

Found it: Darlene starts at decimal place 4,101,479 of π.

Spelling Darlene on a phone

  1. D3
  2. A2
  3. R7
  4. L5
  5. E3
  6. N6
  7. E3

Type Darlene on a phone keypad and you get 3275363: 7 digits to hunt for.

The spot

Decimal place 4,101,479. Roughly 4.1 million digits in, give or take.

Famous neighbours

  • 95 digits back to bathing
  • 1,882 digits back to Zheng He
  • usually, 3,574 digits on
  • mucking, 6,895 digits on

Nearest of all: bathing, just 95 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

Hooray! Your name shows up in full.

Line up 215,867 pencils and the last one points at your name (one digit per cm).

How early is Darlene?

In the race through π, Darlene comes in at number 1,606 of 2,007, ahead of 19% of the 2,007 names.

Darlene's neighbours on this list

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

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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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