…and it all starts with 3.14159
The entirety of π consists of every single password possible.
- Every phone number, birthday and PIN you have ever had is in π.
- Turn letters into numbers and π holds every book ever written, and every book that ever will be.
- Somewhere in π is the full story of your life, in perfect order, followed by a version where you made every other choice.
- π never ends and never repeats. It is irrational, so no fraction will ever equal it exactly.
- NASA only needs about 15 decimal places of π to navigate spacecraft across the solar system.
- 39 digits are enough to measure the observable universe to within the width of a hydrogen atom.
- At digit 762, π has six 9s in a row. It is called the Feynman point.
- Pi Day, March 14 (3/14), is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
- In 1897 the Indiana House passed a bill that would have changed the value of π.
- Computers have now calculated π to more than 300 trillion digits.