Is your name in pi?

[Henrik Husted]

Say this on www.memepool.com A quote from http://pi.nersc.gov/: "Search the first four billion binary digits of Pi for a string" Hey, it found my first name :)

search string = "henrik"
30-bit binary equivalent = 010000010101110100100100101011

search string found at binary index = 2319774228
binary pi : 0110110001000001010111010010010010101101111110000011110101000011
binary string: 010000010101110100100100101011
character pi : kz-ztkwslfkjwoklhenrikoxguawut:_:nztv
character string: henrik

.Henrik

[Todd Smith]

search string = "todd"
20-bit binary equivalent = 10100011110010000100

search string found at binary index = 58541836
binary pi : 0000001110100011110010000100000000000001011000110111101000011100
binary string: 10100011110010000100
character pi : :thkxtwp:-,gppctodd__kcohnnecz-ynczzno
character string: todd

:)

Todd Smith

[ColinDavies]

Both COlin And Davies are in there also, Wow thats, wild it's a bit like the Bible code isn't it ! :-) Regardz Colin J Davies colin@vmtu.com

Love comes between labia and Lust in the dictionary. Quote from Gimme Gimme Gimme

[Mike Burston]

it's a bit like the Bible code isn't it And just as coincidental : http://www.valleyskeptic.com/biblec~1.htm ----------------------------- "My name is Sven und I am from Sveden. I am making das moovies mit mine friend Inga, fvor ve are very poor." - Christian Graus, Oct 29 2001 -----------------------------

[Stephane Routelous]

"stephane" 40-bit binary equivalent = 1001110100001011000001000000010111000101 string does not occur in first 4 billion binary digits of pi :((

[Stephane Routelous]

BTW, have you seen : "Pi, the movie" ? It is a very very good movie ( a little difficult ), and the soundtrack is very good too. http://www.pithemovie.com/ You ca nalso read the book Contact ( Calr Sagan : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671004107/inktomi-bkasin-20/103-9835181-8199807 ) Stephane

[ColinDavies]

stephane Stephane we all feel your pain :(( Either God does find you relevant in his first 4 billion digits of Pi plan, or more likely your parents are to blame for giving you a name that didn't fall into God's plan. Can you change your name by deed poll in your country, If you need a legitimate reason you most certainly have one. As I said before I'm sure we all feel your pain, Regardz Colin J Davies colin@vmtu.com

Love comes between labia and Lust in the dictionary. Quote from Gimme Gimme Gimme

[jkgh]

Pi is infinite decimal which I guess gives an increased probabiliy of finding your name in there because you can't search all of it. Anyone from Asia tried looking for their names in Unicode? Al When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows - Frederick Ryder

[jkgh]

I don't think you are trying! Al When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows - Frederick Ryder

[John Fisher]

How do we know that they've got the right binary representation of the decimal number? ;P

[Henry Jacobs]

How do we know if PI was meant to be decoded in binary?

[John Fisher]

For that matter, how do we know PI was meant to be decoded in decimal? Maybe it should stay as a fraction! :omg:

[Brigg Thorp]

It found my nickname, but not my given name search string = "brigg" 25-bit binary equivalent = 0001010010010010011100111 search string found at binary index = 653612464 binary pi : 1111100000010100100100100111001110000110101011101000010011110000 binary string: 0001010010010010011100111 character pi : egedq_o-z_-ihvgxbriggaunpsxeykqwnkw:ob character string: brigg search string = "brigham" 35-bit binary equivalent = 00010100100100100111010000000101101 string does not occur in first 4 billion binary digits of pi Brigg Thorp Software Engineer Timex Corporation