An extraordinary crop circle based on the 'world's most beautiful maths theorem' has appeared in a field next to a windmill in Wiltshire.

The complex disc, which measures 300ft across, appeared to the east of Wilton Windmill near Marlborough in a blazing yellow rape seed field.

It appeared on Saturday just 25miles from another circle that popped up a fortnight ago by the Iron Age hill fort of Old Sarum.

Lucy Pringle, a renowned crop circle researcher was puzzled by what appears to be a hidden code based on complex numbers within the shape.

She said: 'I believe it contains binary, a numeral system, or base-2 number system that represents numeric values using two symbols, 0 and 1.

'Working from the centre outwards, people are suggesting it has a connection to Leonhard Euler's theorem e^(i)pi+1=0 which is thought to be one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics.'

She added that it could even contain a hidden tune.

'Historically over the years, crop circles have been associated with diatonic scales (white notes on the piano),' she said.

'These diatonic scale frequencies are encoded in each segment of the crop circle and can be played on the piano.

'This is a unique formation incorporating both music and mathematics and is similar in importance to the famous 2008 Barbury Castle Pi event.'

Another crop circle expert said everyone can draw their own conclusions from the circles, adding: 'The thing about maths and the circles is that you are dealing with something which isn't an exact science so one person may decode the circles as having diatonic ratios, the other may find meaning in binary numbers or astrological cycles.


'The only possible explanation which covers all areas would be humans, however this can only be a problematic relationship shared by creaters and researchers since the [UFO] researchers hate the idea that a sense of wonder and optimism is quoshed by the admittance of human involvement.'

Carved out in a barley field, the Barbury Castle crop circle was a pictorial representation of the first ten digits of Pi, one of the most fundamental symbols in mathematics. The image was an example of what is known as a fractal, or geometric pattern.

It was solved by astrophysicist Mike Reed who saw a picture of the crop circle and made the mathematical link.

Crop circle designs have developed from simple circles in the 1970s to pictorial designs in the late 1980s and binary number designers from 2001.
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they're getting good @ math.

I admit that this could but human made because it's just straight lines but it still is very complex and would need a genius to design and fabricate it.
But possible we are reading it wrong since the lines have variable lengths unlike in real binary where it's _ or I.

This goes way beyond my knowledge of maths. lol

It's not really math it's binary, a code of 1's and 0's
the ascii one has 8 characters
00000001 being a
00000010 being b
00000011 being c
00000100 being d
00000101 being e
...etc

It's pretty easy once you get it

No its not... ASCII is overkillingly complex, hence why its barely used.

Oh and based on the other crop circles posts, this isnt very complex. drawing circles is done by wires

Dude ASCII is the characters that you got on your keyboard, they are not that complex o.o
You learnt most of em in the primary school as they represent the capital letters of the alphabet (Not in the usual order though)
And I do think that it's quite well used since it's the primary code that we use for reading and writing.

cool i guees
or just pure luck it turned out like this

I doubt that it's luck O.o
that would be a (0.5^8)^12 chance.
That's 1 in 7.92281624E28 (an 7.9 with 28 zeros)
That's a really small chance xD

Chance of what? just randomly drawing and see what comes out? That and the formula isnt even correct...

Which one? Mine or the one in the article?

i guess it's yours, where do you base it on?

Well there are 8 digits in binary, either 1 or 0.
So to get the right one you have a chance of 0.5 or 50%
To get the whole row correct you'll have a chance of 0.5*0.5*0.5*... => 0.5^8
and to get all 12 row's correct you'll need twelve times that chance so (0.5^8)^12
It's basics statistics.

lol math freak :p ( not in a bad way ^^ )

well math isn't my strong suit but I got admit that crop circle is really well made and has little to no flaws to it. Something so well made is kind of beyond humans doing it without a lot of people helping.