Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Maxwell in π?

Yes! Maxwell first turns up at decimal place 16,614,640.

Spelling Maxwell on a phone

  1. M6
  2. A2
  3. X9
  4. W9
  5. E3
  6. L5
  7. L5

Letter by letter, Maxwell becomes 6299355 (7 digits).

Where it sits

Decimal place 16,614,640. You'd read about 16.6 million digits of π before you reached it.

Famous neighbours

  • 5,968 digits back to ignited
  • 10,931 digits back to revived
  • ambling, 3,406 digits on
  • coaling, 3,406 digits on

ambling is the nearest famous face, 3,406 digits to the right.

Chalk talk

π knows your name! Well, the keypad version of it.

That's a 166 km road trip along the π tape.

Among popular names

Maxwell turns up earlier than 10% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 1,787 of the 2,007 we found.

Names close to Maxwell

Maxwell 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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