Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Finlay in π?

Found it: Finlay starts at decimal place 2,772,049 of π.

From letters to digits

  1. F3
  2. I4
  3. N6
  4. L5
  5. A2
  6. Y9

Finlay turns into 346529 on the keypad, 6 digits long.

Where it sits

Decimal place 2,772,049. That's about 2.8 million digits into π.

Next door in π

  • 1,619 digits back to erosion
  • 3,989 digits back to sardine
  • cousins, 9 digits on
  • pinkies, 997 digits on

cousins is the nearest famous face, 9 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

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

Your name is 145,897 pencils away if every digit is a centimetre long.

Among popular names

Number 1,532 of 2,007: Finlay beats 23% of the 2,007 names on this list to its spot.

Finlay's neighbours on this list

Finlay is on our list of popular first names in the UK.

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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