Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Ellen in π?

Found it: Ellen starts at decimal place 136,078 of π.

Ellen on the keypad

  1. E3
  2. L5
  3. L5
  4. E3
  5. N6

Letter by letter, Ellen becomes 35536 (5 digits).

Ellen in the digits

Decimal place 136,078. You'd read about 136,078 digits of π before you reached it.

Famous neighbours

  • 3,179 digits back to sprints
  • 4,490 digits back to autonomy
  • P. V. Sindhu, 1,346 digits on
  • snowing, 3,338 digits on

Nearest of all: P. V. Sindhu, just 1,346 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

Search complete. Mission: success!

Plot twist: π looked away 136,077 times before finally writing you down.

The name race

In the race through π, Ellen comes in at number 841 of 2,007, ahead of 58% of the 2,007 names.

Ellen's neighbours on this list

Ellen 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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