Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Matilda in π?

It is. Matilda is waiting at decimal place 35,830,018.

From letters to digits

  1. M6
  2. A2
  3. T8
  4. I4
  5. L5
  6. D3
  7. A2

On a phone, Matilda is 6284532. That's the 7-digit run we look for.

Matilda in the digits

Decimal place 35,830,018. It sits about 35.8 million digits after the 3.

Famous neighbours

  • 5,775 digits back to Alan Turing's birthday
  • 13,774 digits back to premised
  • discuses, 8,440 digits on
  • scepters, 32,857 digits on

Nearest of all: Alan Turing's birthday, just 5,775 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

Hooray! Your name shows up in full.

At one digit per cm, that's 1.9 million pencils laid end to end.

The name race

Number 1,857 of 2,007: Matilda beats 7% of the 2,007 names on this list to its spot.

Matilda's neighbours on this list

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

See every name

§ 3

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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