r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/jerome78000 • 1d ago
I built an interactive book to explore pi and search its first billion digits — feedback welcome
https://www.piexplorer.org/I’ve been working on PiExplorer, a small personal project built around a simple idea: exploring π should feel more like opening an interactive book than using a conventional reference website.
You can read about π, explore its decimal digits, and search for a sequence of digits in a dataset containing one billion decimal digits.
The project is still evolving, and I’d really appreciate some honest feedback.
A few questions I’m particularly interested in:
- Does the interactive-book format make the experience more engaging, or does it get in the way?
- Is the digit-search feature useful and easy to understand?
- What would make you want to explore the site further?
Here it is: https://www.piexplorer.org/
I built it as an independent project and would genuinely appreciate constructive criticism, including anything confusing or unnecessary.
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u/thenorussian 1d ago
And why exactly should exploring π ‘feel more like opening an interactive book than using a conventional reference website’?
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u/Specialist-Coast9787 1d ago
Probably what ChatGPT said should go on the 1st slide in a pitch deck.
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u/jerome78000 1d ago
Of course it doesn’t give any additional information, but it gives the warm feeling of searching by turning pages rather than just giving some instant cold answer.
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u/Peter_NL 1d ago
It’s definitely nice to read the info, I wouldn’t normally have done that.
“Each group contains ten digits, read from top to bottom.” I believe we should first read from left to right.
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u/BizzyM 1d ago
My 10 digit phone number doesn't appear in that list. So I'm safe.