Enabling surfers to play Pac-Man as opposed to actually initiating the hunt they showed as much as complete? Taking a stroll through an episode of Burn Notice? Throwing internet on a magical Indian bus ? All relatively normal things from one Google, Inc., nevertheless it seems that Larry Page’s deadpan demeanor is basically covering up quite the nature. In the course of the outfit’s recent try to outbid the likes of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM and Sony for a sliver of Nortel’s coveted wireless patent portfolio, Reuters is reporting that Google’s plays were… lower than conventional. Reportedly, the corporate bid $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128, better known by mathematicians as Brun’s constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, respectively. Funnier still, Google decided to provide $3.14159 billion (you already know, pi) when the bidding reached $3 billion. Some of the unnamed sources summed up the bizarreness quite well:
“Google was bidding with numbers that weren’t even numbers. It became clear that they were bidding with the gap between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, after which when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi. Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.”
Or, perhaps they’re just supremely awesome?
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