Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Mathew in π?

Yes! Mathew first turns up at decimal place 953,323.

From letters to digits

  1. M6
  2. A2
  3. T8
  4. H4
  5. E3
  6. W9

On a phone, Mathew is 628439. That's the 6-digit run we look for.

Mathew in the digits

Decimal place 953,323. It sits about 1 million digits after the 3.

Famous neighbours

  • 157 digits back to nebulous
  • 264 digits back to Norway
  • busboys, 2,088 digits on
  • tracers, 3,347 digits on

Nearest of all: nebulous, just 157 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

1 million digits deep and still in the shallow end of the pool.

At 2,000 digits a page, your name is 477 pages in.

Among popular names

In the race through π, Mathew comes in at number 1,306 of 2,007, ahead of 34% of the 2,007 names.

Mathew's neighbours on this list

Mathew 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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