In High Stakes Patent Auction, Google Bids Mathematical Constants

Google turned some heads with its unusual bidding strategy. The mathematically inclined quickly identified a pattern in Google’s bids. Their opening shot was Brun’s constant, followed by Meissel-Mertens constant, and finally pi. Reuters quotes a source commenting on Google’s bidding, saying “either they were supremely confident or they were bored". http://bit.ly/lCLf00
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