July 11, 2011 is one kind of "pi day" in our calendar, equal to year 11, day 11, month 7 or (11 + 11) / 7 = 22 / 7 which was Archimedes's approximation to pi 2300 years ago. Thus 22 / 7 = 3.1428 while pi = 3.1416. The crop artists have marked this special day by drawing two large images of pi in a field near Stanton St. Bernard, which look like the standard diagram for pi shown below: One week ago on July 4, 2011, they likewise drew two elaborate crop pictures near the Barge Canal at Honey Street. One of them showed "five scorpions" as our Moon in the constellation Scorpius on July 11, 2011 (today as pi day), while the other showed a clever code for calculating pi as (3 + 2 + 9 + 5 + 3) / (6 + 1) = 22 / 7. Thus one crop picture showed a date of 11-11-7 astronomically, while the other picture showed (11 + 11) / 7 = 22 / 7 mathematically. Many people on Earth currently celebrate a "Pi Day" of March 14 every year, because that date stands for 3-14 while pi = 3.14. Today the crop artists have taught us a new and even more clever Pi Day as July 11, 2011, where 11-11-7 = 22 / 7 is a close approximation to pi used by Archimedes in 300 BC. One end of the Honey Street "pi code" on July 4 even showed a circle inscribed between two hexagons, which was a famous construction used to calculate pi by Archimedes 2300 years ago. Modern mathematicians, please take note! Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew in Wiltshire) http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2011/StantonStBernard2/comments.html |
