August 18, 2005
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Oh Google
While Google’s plans for the cash remain a mystery, the company left a clue that suggests the size of the offering wasn’t arbitrary. The number of shares Google plans to sell is 14,159,265. Those are the first eight digits that follow the decimal in the value of pi (3.14159265), which is a number that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Posted August 18, 2005 at 11:40 | Comments (1) | Permasnark
File under: Briefly Noted, Gleeful Miscellany
File under: Briefly Noted, Gleeful Miscellany
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Bah. Pi's already been around the block. Let's see 'em sell, like, Avogadro's number or something.