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Google Makes Pi in the Sky Bids for Patents

George R [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, July 2, 2011
12 years ago6,385 views

Google made several bids for the Nortel Patents.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel-google-idUSTRE76104L20110702

$1,902,160,540
$2,614,972,128
$3.141,592,653

Many sources quote Nicely's approximation of Brun's constant, which differs from Google's bid as reported by Reuters.

~1.902160582 = Brun's constant http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/xpage/BrunsConstant.html
~.2614972128 = Merten's constant http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MertensConstant.html
~3.141592653 = Archimedes' Constant http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Pi.html

discovery of Pentium bug: http://www.trnicely.net/pentbug/pentbug.html

George R [PersonRank 10]

12 years ago #

Philipp please change period to comma:
$3.141,592,653 should be $3,141,592,653

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