Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Penelope in π?

Yes! Penelope first turns up at decimal place 20,492,926.

Penelope on the keypad

  1. P7
  2. E3
  3. N6
  4. E3
  5. L5
  6. O6
  7. P7
  8. E3

Letter by letter, Penelope becomes 73635673 (8 digits).

Penelope in the digits

Decimal place 20,492,926. You'd read about 20.5 million digits of π before you reached it.

Next door in π

  • 13,184 digits back to jiggles
  • 16,874 digits back to tumbled
  • doodled, 16,536 digits on
  • vividest, 24,867 digits on

Nearest of all: jiggles, just 13,184 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

All 8 digits, present and correct.

Story time! Reading π aloud up to your name takes 237 days.

The name race

Penelope turns up earlier than 9% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 1,812 of the 2,007 we found.

Penelope's neighbours on this list

Penelope 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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