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Article: Crop circle genius brings the life of pi ; To the untrained eye it looks like a pretty pattern - one of the fascinating geometric shapes that adorn the fields of Wiltshire every summer.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2008
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To the untrained eye it looks like a pretty pattern - one of the
fascinating geometric shapes that adorn the fields of Wiltshire
every summer.
But this new crop circle, discovered in a field in north
Wiltshire, has stunned mathematicians.
The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex
mathematical number - the first ten digits of pi - and even
astrophysicists admit they find it 'mind boggling'.
The formation was created in a barley field near Barbury Castle,
the iron age hillfort above Wroughton in Wiltshire in early June.
Measuring around 150ft in diameter, it had the crop circle
enthusiasts and experts stumped - and they usually can come up with
a message or purpose to ...