Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Ivory in π?

Ivory is in π. First stop: decimal place 29,240.

From letters to digits

  1. I4
  2. V8
  3. O6
  4. R7
  5. Y9

Type Ivory on a phone keypad and you get 48679: 5 digits to hunt for.

Where it sits

Decimal place 29,240. Roughly 29,240 digits in, give or take.

Next door in π

  • 776 digits back to exceeded
  • 1,197 digits back to John Venn
  • Wales, 268 digits on
  • Claude Monet, 426 digits on

Wales is the nearest famous face, 268 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

Decimal place 29,240: close enough to visit, far enough to feel special.

Unroll π at one digit per cm and you'd walk 292 m to reach your name.

Among popular names

Ivory turns up earlier than 75% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 495 of the 2,007 we found.

Ivory's neighbours on this list

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

See every name

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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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