Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Joel in π?

It is. Joel is waiting at decimal place 8,724.

Spelling Joel on a phone

  1. J5
  2. O6
  3. E3
  4. L5

Letter by letter, Joel becomes 5635 (4 digits).

Where it sits

Decimal place 8,724. You'd read about 8,724 digits of π before you reached it.

Who lives nearby

  • 322 digits back to China
  • 748 digits back to Niels Bohr
  • setters, 538 digits on
  • Delhi, 1,727 digits on

Nearest of all: China, just 322 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

Welcome to the first million digits, where the cool numbers hang out.

Your name is 459 pencils away if every digit is a centimetre long.

Among popular names

Joel turns up earlier than 85% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 286 of the 2,007 we found.

Names close to Joel

Joel 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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