A “mind-boggling” crop circle has been spotted in a barley field in Wiltshire, England. The design is a code that represents the first ten digits of pi.
It doesn’t seem so “mind-boggling” to me. I should think that math geeks would be exactly the sort of people to join a crop circle maker group. Link -via Digg
Michael Reed, an astrophysicist, said: "The tenth digit has even been correctly rounded up. The little dot near the centre is the decimal point.
"The code is based on 10 angular segments with the radial jumps being the indicator of each segment.
"Starting at the centre and counting the number of one-tenth segments in each section contained by the change in radius clearly shows the values of the first 10 digits in the value of pi."
It doesn’t seem so “mind-boggling” to me. I should think that math geeks would be exactly the sort of people to join a crop circle maker group. Link -via Digg
SNORE.
I suspect rabid fans (they mostly are!) or marketing or both.
And I wish it would go away, so these could be seen as the grand, large-scale works of art that they are.
The effort and precision that must go into making them, conceptualizing them, and planning them... That, to me, is mind boggling.
I would never have gotten that this is a representation of Pi. My mind doesn't notice such things, and math and I don't get along. That said, if it weren't for the whole 'aliens!' controversy, I think these would get more attention for the right reasons!
Now had the constant been 2*pi, expressed in base 14, THEN I'd be intrigued...
www.PiPyramid.com
PI is a needed part of galactic travel.
After completing PI, I found the reason why PI is in a crop circle.
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