Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Hannah in π?

Hannah is in π. First stop: decimal place 293,979.

Spelling Hannah on a phone

  1. H4
  2. A2
  3. N6
  4. N6
  5. A2
  6. H4

Letter by letter, Hannah becomes 426624 (6 digits).

Hannah in the digits

Decimal place 293,979. You'd read about 293,979 digits of π before you reached it.

Who lives nearby

  • 3,843 digits back to Lagos
  • 9,247 digits back to visions
  • spindle, 1,000 digits on
  • frescoes, 1,630 digits on

The closest famous neighbour is spindle, 1,000 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

A computer finds you in a blink. Reading aloud would take a good while longer.

A digit a second, no breaks: 3.4 days to reach your name.

The name race

Hannah turns up earlier than 48% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 1,042 of the 2,007 we found.

Hannah's neighbours on this list

Hannah 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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