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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. Weird! by siglercm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When I read this article, there were exactly 42 comments posted!

    Oh, damn....

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