Pi crop

[Sambuchi]

Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368422,00.html

But an electrical engineer from North Carolina — described by the London newspapers as a "retired astrophysicist" — figured out that it was an abstract representation of pi

[Engineer1138]

I guess the aliens haven't gotten bored yet

[MrAl]

Hi,

Aliens, cant live with 'em, cant live without 'em (cause somebodies
always going to blame them for something).

[ringo47stars]

It looks more like a sextant design the way the lines from the center angle and correlate. Not intended for making a sextant but to show a navigational coordinate of some kind.

[Bob Scott]

For pi, I see:

The 3 as 3/10 of a 360 degree clockwise rotation. (Aliens must think clockwise is forward too, and use base 10 arithmetic. What a coincidence! I bet they have 10 fingers to count on too.)
Then the decimal point is a dot on the grass. Wow! A dot for a decimal point! They must be humanoid!

Then 14159265. Then I see the rest is rounded off to 4....with three circles following. Has anyone decoded what the 3 circles mean?

Edit: I just discovered that the windows calculator has pi value after all. Just press the P key.......

[jwax]

Thanks Bob! AND, the x key in calculator allows exponentials!
Who'd a thunk?

[haklesup]

Then 14159265. Then I see the rest is rounded off to 4... with three circles following. Has anyone decoded what the 3 circles mean? Shocked

Wouldn't they stand for "..." just as you used it. (or were you being sarcastic)

[Bob Scott]

Wouldn't they stand for "..." just as you used it.

Could be, but I wonder why the three tiny trailing circles have different sizes.

(or were you being sarcastic)

I don't think so-- No more than Dave Barry

[Joseph]

Wouldn't they stand for "..." just as you used it.

Could be, but I wonder why the three tiny trailing circles have different sizes.

On and on but not repeating?