# Question about Pi

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pi/937728 "2021-03-11T18:40:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-pi/937728/8 "2021-03-11T20:24:14Z")

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> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> Sorry if this has been asked before

And yes, this has come up before. Since the question has been answered, it’s probably not worth searching out earlier answers; but here’s an old thread on a related question that some of us might find interesting:

> [@"Messages" (not really) in Pi](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/messages-not-really-in-pi/846073):
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> Since Pi is believed to be [normal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number) in the sense that any numerical sequence in it’s decimal expansion should appear randomly, and because we currently know the decimal expansion of Pi to [31 trillion digits](https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703566696/the-woman-who-calculated-31-trillion-digits-of-pi), then given some suitable scheme for translating digits into letters are there any known short phrases appearing in Pi? Something like “Hello John” for example? ETA: especially if you expressed Pi in base-26 perhaps.

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