The digits were here first.

This universe holds 1,000,000,000 decimal digits of π, taken from a published dataset and checked against a second, independent computation: 24 spot checks spread across all of them matched Google's Pi API exactly.

Every 1,000,000-digit land is hashed with SHA-256 and listed in a registry alongside the hash of the whole dataset:

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Every signature is checked before it is stored. The digits you claim must match π at the position you claim. The check runs against Google's public Pi API, and against the dataset here only when that service cannot be reached. A claim that does not match is rejected.

You can run the same check yourself:

curl "https://api.pi.delivery/v1/pi?start=0&numberOfDigits=11"

In a sequence that behaves normally, every string of k digits is equally likely — 314159 is exactly as rare as 000000. So rarity here is a function of length alone: the expected number of times a k-digit pattern appears in n digits is n ÷ 10^k.

That is also why a long pattern can show a probability that rounds to zero while you are looking straight at it.

π has no letters, so a word is encoded before the search: each letter becomes its position in the alphabet, two digits each, a=01 through z=26. Typing hi searches for 0809, and the translation appears above the search field as you type.

A “first of this pattern” badge means first on this site, not first in history. A pattern missing here is missing from these 1,000,000,000 digits, not from π. A signature carries no legal right to anything.