Pi Search Engine

How does this work?

π (pi) is a number whose digits run on forever without ever repeating — 3.14159265… and on, and on. Because they never settle into a pattern, just about any string of digits you can imagine turns up somewhere inside it. Including your name.

But to search, your name first has to become a number. The obvious way would be a = 1, b = 2 … z = 26. The catch: letters from j onward are two digits, so an eight-letter name can balloon to twelve or more digits — and a number that long hides so deep in π that you'd need an impossibly large slice of it to ever reach the spot.

So instead your whole name is folded into a single number and kept short enough to actually find. Names of five letters or fewer always get their own unique number — no two ever clash. From six letters on, the number gets trimmed to fit, and that's where the one trade-off lives: every so often two longer names land on the same number, and so on the same spot in π. It's never a fixed rule — a is always 1 and z is always 26, no letter secretly equals another — just a rare whole-name coincidence you'd have to go hunting for. Think of it as sharing a lucky spot.

This search looks through the first billion digits of π. Short names show up almost instantly; the longest ones live deeper and occasionally fall just outside even a billion digits.