Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Nathalie in π?

It is. Nathalie is waiting at decimal place 124,491,592.

From letters to digits

  1. N6
  2. A2
  3. T8
  4. H4
  5. A2
  6. L5
  7. I4
  8. E3

On a phone, Nathalie is 62842543. That's the 8-digit run we look for.

Nathalie in the digits

Decimal place 124,491,592. It sits about 124 million digits after the 3.

Who lives nearby

  • 7,361 digits back to perfumes
  • 10,784 digits back to mediocre
  • prototype, 5,149 digits on
  • fainting, 115,280 digits on

prototype is the nearest famous face, 5,149 digits to the right.

From the teacher's notes

Hundreds of millions of digits, and then: you!

Reading one digit a second, you'd reach your name in 3.9 years.

The name race

In the race through π, Nathalie comes in at number 1,929 of 2,007, ahead of 3% of the 2,007 names.

Nathalie's neighbours on this list

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

See every name

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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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