Technology|July 3, 2011 11:41 am

Google bids pi for Nortel’s wireless patent stash, brings comedy to places you never thought possible

Enabling surfers to fool around Pac-Man instead of essentially initiating the poke they showed up to complete? Taking the wander by an part of Burn Notice? Throwing internet upon the enchanting Indian bus? All comparatively normal things from the single Google, Inc., though it seems which Larry Page’s passionless appearance is essentially covering up utterly the character. During the outfit’s new try to outbid the likes of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM as well as Sony for the splinter of Nortel’s desired wireless obvious portfolio, Reuters is stating which Google’s plays were… reduction than conventional. Reportedly, the association bid $1,902,160,540 as well as $2,614,972,128, improved well known by mathematicians as Brun’s consistent as well as Meissel-Mertens constant, respectively. Funnier still, Google motionless to suggest $3.14159 billion (you know, pi) when the behest reached $3 billion. One of the unnamed sources summed up the bizarreness utterly well:

“Google was behest with numbers which were not even numbers. It became transparent which they were behest with the stretch in between the earth as well as the sun. One was the total of the important mathematical constant, as well as afterwards when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi. Either they were magnificently assured or they were bored.”

Or, maybe they’re only magnificently awesome?

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