Article: Is this pi from the sky or just another crop circle con?

WHEN it comes to crop circles, a simple pattern is usually enough to grab attention.

But this elaborate design, which appeared in a barley field overnight, has even stunned scientists after it emerged it depicts the mathematical formula pi.

An astrophysicist saw the image posted on the internet and made the connection between the design of the crop circle and pi.

While some think the 250ft-wide design is a message from another world, most put the baffling circles down to hoaxers who have gone to extraordinary lengths to display their mathematical prowess.

The theory is that the circle, in a field near Barbury Castle in Wiltshire, south-west England, is a coded image of the first ten ...

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