Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Murray in π?

It is. Murray is waiting at decimal place 65,046.

From letters to digits

  1. M6
  2. U8
  3. R7
  4. R7
  5. A2
  6. Y9

Letter by letter, Murray becomes 687729 (6 digits).

Murray in the digits

Decimal place 65,046. You'd read about 65,046 digits of π before you reached it.

Who lives nearby

  • 647 digits back to skittish
  • 1,466 digits back to Madrid
  • Lamine Yamal, 642 digits on
  • pilgrim, 872 digits on

Nearest of all: Lamine Yamal, just 642 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

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

skittish is 647 digits to your left and Lamine Yamal is 642 digits to your right.

The name race

Murray turns up earlier than 67% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 646 of the 2,007 we found.

Murray's neighbours on this list

Murray made our list from the baby-name charts for England and Wales.

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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