Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Mason in π?

It is. Mason is waiting at decimal place 8,939.

Spelling Mason on a phone

  1. M6
  2. A2
  3. S7
  4. O6
  5. N6

Letter by letter, Mason becomes 62766 (5 digits).

Mason in the digits

Decimal place 8,939. You'd read about 8,939 digits of π before you reached it.

Who lives nearby

  • 537 digits back to China
  • 963 digits back to Niels Bohr
  • setters, 323 digits on
  • Delhi, 1,512 digits on

Nearest of all: setters, just 323 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

All 5 digits, present and correct.

At one digit per cm, that's 298 pizzas laid end to end. Snack break!

The name race

Mason turns up earlier than 85% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 291 of the 2,007 we found.

Names close to Mason

Mason 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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