Find Your Name in Pi

Published by patrick honner on

Name in PiThis is a fun and clever idea:  convert the decimal expansion of Pi into base 27 and name the “digits” A, B, C, D, … .  This creates a way to decode numbers into words and phrases (the ‘0’ digit is interpreted to be a space, or a punctuation mark).

With this in place, you you can search for your name (or any phrase) in the infinite expansion of Pi!

http://www.dr-mikes-maths.com/pisearch.html

This will certainly excite all those cosmological conspiracy theorists out there!

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Math teacher in Brooklyn, New York

1 Comment

Ahmed Gouda · December 28, 2010 at 7:46 pm

AAAAAA works and its coincidentally pretty early. I’m willing to bet that disappointed some people while calculating pi, thinking it was finally gonna have a pattern.

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