Pi (π) is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter — approximately 3.14159. It's irrational, so its decimal expansion never ends and never repeats; below are the first 1,000 digits, computed from the same 1,000,000-digit dataset this site's full Pi page uses.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100031378387528865875332083814206171776691473035982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577818577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989
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How often each digit 0–9 actually appears in these 1,000 digits — computed fresh from this exact page's data, not a fixed table. Pi's digits are conjectured (though not proven) to be normal, meaning every digit should appear about equally often over a long enough run — worth comparing against ~100.0, the count you'd expect from a perfectly even split of 1,000 digits.
0
93
1
116
2
103
3
102
4
93
5
97
6
94
7
95
8
101
9
106
Starting at digit 762 of this list is a run of six
consecutive 9s (999999) — nicknamed the Feynman point
after physicist Richard Feynman, who reportedly joked he'd like to memorize pi out to that
point just so he could recite it and finish by saying "nine nine nine nine nine nine, and
so on." It's a real, striking pattern in an otherwise patternless sequence — visible
here because 1,000 digits is enough to reach it.
Despite pi having infinitely many digits, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses only about 15 decimal digits of pi for its most precise interplanetary navigation calculations — enough to compute the circumference of a circle the size of the observable universe to within the width of a hydrogen atom. Digit counts like the 1,000 on this page exist for curiosity, memorization challenges, and testing computer arithmetic — not because any real calculation needs them.
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