Is my name in π?
Is Simon in π?
Yes! Simon first turns up at decimal place 20,229.
Simon on the keypad
- S7
- I4
- M6
- O6
- N6
Letter by letter, Simon becomes 74666 (5 digits).
Where it sits
74666
Decimal place 20,229. You'd read about 20,229 digits of π before you reached it.
Next door in π
- 18 digits back to India
- 1,279 digits back to ethical
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, 487 digits on
- George Boole, 509 digits on
Nearest of all: India, just 18 digits to the left.
From the teacher's notes
A computer finds you in a blink. Reading aloud would take a good while longer.
π said 'not yet' 20,228 times before it wrote your name.
Among popular names
Simon turns up earlier than 78% of the 2,007 popular names here: number 436 of the 2,007 we found.
Simon's neighbours on this list
Simon made our list from the US baby-name charts.
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Your number is in π.*
We looked. All 100 billion digits. Twice, for luck.