Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Malcolm in π?

Yes, Malcolm is in there, starting at decimal place 14,544,703.

From letters to digits

  1. M6
  2. A2
  3. L5
  4. C2
  5. O6
  6. L5
  7. M6

Type Malcolm on a phone keypad and you get 6252656: 7 digits to hunt for.

Malcolm in the digits

Decimal place 14,544,703. Roughly 14.5 million digits in, give or take.

Famous neighbours

  • 6,996 digits back to possums
  • 14,765 digits back to relative
  • raucous, 619 digits on
  • flimsier, 18,546 digits on

raucous is the nearest famous face, 619 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

Search complete. Mission: success!

At one digit per cm, that's 484,823 pizzas laid end to end. Snack break!

The name race

Number 1,764 of 2,007: Malcolm beats 12% of the 2,007 names on this list to its spot.

Malcolm's neighbours on this list

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

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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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