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In reply to the discussion: NBC News: Mysterious California Crop Circle plowed over [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Encoding in base 10 as a means of interstellar communication would be bone dead stupid.
Octafish is unaware that the only reason that "pi ten significant digits" equals "3.141592654" is because humans happen to have ten fingers.
Likewise, the only reason that there are "360 degrees" in the angular measure of a circle is because Babylonians rounded off the number of days in a year to 360, and which is conveniently factorable by several integers.
There is nothing natural about the decimal sequence "3141592654" or the circular angular measure of "360" other than by reference to a species having ten fingers and a rounding error based on the earth's orbit and spin, for the sake of convenience in factoring a number.
No fucking alien would do that. Our own computers don't even use base 10.