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Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents

Posted by Soulskill on from the lighter-side-of-patent-news dept.

mikejuk writes "Google mystified other participants in an auction for patents last week by their choice of bids. They weren't the round regular numbers that are normally expected. After first bidding $1,902,160,540 — a reference to Brun's constant — and later bidding $2,614,972,128 for the Meissel-Mertens constant, they ended up submitting a bid for $3.14159 billion. Google ended up losing the auction — but was that a deliberate ploy?"

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  1. WTF Google... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We're bidding billions of dollars and we round Pi off at 5 decimal places?

    They should have bid $3,141,592,653.59.

  2. Principals didn't get it by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll bet dimes to dollars none of the principals on this deal "got it". It's science, after all, and scientists are just manual laborers, in the same sort of class as plumbers. The only good people in society are in finance and top corporate management.

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