Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Lorelei in π?

It is. Lorelei is waiting at decimal place 9,694,130.

Lorelei on the keypad

  1. L5
  2. O6
  3. R7
  4. E3
  5. L5
  6. E3
  7. I4

Letter by letter, Lorelei becomes 5673534 (7 digits).

Lorelei in the digits

Decimal place 9,694,130. You'd read about 9.7 million digits of π before you reached it.

Next door in π

  • 4,136 digits back to ecology
  • 11,853 digits back to injects
  • candidly, 790 digits on
  • prosaic, 2,051 digits on

The closest famous neighbour is candidly, 790 digits to the right.

Chalk talk

π had to write 9.7 million digits before your name showed up.

π said 'not yet' 9.7 million times before it wrote your name.

The name race

Lorelei turns up earlier than 14% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 1,719 of the 2,007 we found.

Names close to Lorelei

Lorelei made our list from the US baby-name charts.

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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