Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Pamela in π?

Pamela is in π. First stop: decimal place 1,523,656.

From letters to digits

  1. P7
  2. A2
  3. M6
  4. E3
  5. L5
  6. A2

On a phone, Pamela is 726352. That's the 6-digit run we look for.

Pamela in the digits

Decimal place 1,523,656. It sits about 1.5 million digits after the 3.

Famous neighbours

  • 1,070 digits back to saintly
  • 3,747 digits back to eroding
  • unnerve, 4,199 digits on
  • thereby, 5,312 digits on

saintly is the nearest famous face, 1,070 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

Ooh, 1.5 million digits deep. Your name likes a bit of privacy.

Unroll π at one digit per cm and you'd walk 15.2 km to reach your name.

The name race

Pamela turns up earlier than 30% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 1,401 of the 2,007 we found.

Pamela's neighbours on this list

Pamela 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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