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Sunkenkirk Stone Circle on BBC The Code by Marcus du Sautoy by Andy B on Wednesday, 27 July 2011

It was a great pleasure to see Swinside (Sunkenkirk) on BBC2's The Code by Marcus du Sautoy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012xppj

But were you soon shouting (or muttering) at the screen "no, the reason you calculated a diameter to circumference ratio of 3.2 not 3.14 is because it's not round, it's an ellipse!"

I wonder how many stone circle anoraks have emailed Professor du Sautoy to point out this out. However before I did I thought I should refresh my rather rusty memory...

Continued here
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