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Is my name in π?

Is Wes in π?

Found it: Wes starts at decimal place 45 of π.

From letters to digits

  1. W9
  2. E3
  3. S7

Type Wes on a phone keypad and you get 937: 3 digits to hunt for.

Wes in the digits

Decimal place 45. Roughly 45 digits in, give or take.

Famous neighbours

  • 26 digits back to Goa
  • PSV Eindhoven, 576 digits on
  • Chennai Super Kings, 585 digits on

Goa is the nearest famous face, 26 digits to the left.

Chalk talk

Fewer than a thousand digits in. Welcome to π's VIP lounge.

At one digit per cm, that's 1.5 pizzas laid end to end. Snack break!

The name race

In the race through π, Wes comes in at number 11 of 2,007, ahead of 99% of the 2,007 names.

Names close to Wes

Wes 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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