Is my name in π?
Is Henry in π?
Henry is in π. First stop: decimal place 90,070.
From letters to digits
- H4
- E3
- N6
- R7
- Y9
On a phone, Henry is 43679. That's the 5-digit run we look for.
Henry in the digits
43679
Decimal place 90,070. It sits about 90,070 digits after the 3.
Next door in π
- 96 digits back to Gukesh Dommaraju
- 268 digits back to Kenya
- Michael Phelps, 732 digits on
- burners, 1,787 digits on
Nearest of all: Gukesh Dommaraju, just 96 digits to the left.
From the teacher's notes
Your name has a lovely address: number 90,070, Pi Street.
At one digit per centimetre, you'd need 4,741 pencils in a row to reach your name.
The name race
Number 723 of 2,007: Henry beats 64% of the 2,007 names on this list to its spot.
Henry's neighbours on this list
Henry made our list from the US baby-name charts.
§ 3
Your number is in π.*
We looked. All 100 billion digits. Twice, for luck.