Hidden in π

Is my name in π?

Is Sean in π?

It is. Sean is waiting at decimal place 1,376.

From letters to digits

  1. S7
  2. E3
  3. A2
  4. N6

Type Sean on a phone keypad and you get 7326: 4 digits to hunt for.

Sean in the digits

Decimal place 1,376. Roughly 1,376 digits in, give or take.

Famous neighbours

  • 135 digits back to importer
  • 218 digits back to Rio de Janeiro
  • Sia, 181 digits on
  • François Viète, 420 digits on

The closest famous neighbour is importer, 135 digits to the left.

From the teacher's notes

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

At one digit per cm, that's 72.4 pencils laid end to end.

The name race

In the race through π, Sean comes in at number 102 of 2,007, ahead of 94% of the 2,007 names.

Sean's neighbours on this list

Sean is on our list of popular first names in the US.

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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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