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Nice has prepared a summary of what happened at the auction of patents from Nortel, which led to Apple, Microsoft, EMC, RIM, Sony Ericsson and obtain patents for $ 4.5 billion dollars. There are a lot of interesting information, but one of the most strange is that instead of bidding round figures, like almost everyone, Google numbers geeks rarely offer only recognize " / aa>

In the auction of patents Nortel wireless networks, this week, Google offers have been perplexing, as $ 1,902,160.54 and $ 2,614,972,128 miles.


math geniuses can recognize these figures as constant Meisel Brun-Mertens constant, but puzzled many of those involved in the auction, according to three people with knowledge direct the situation Friday.

"Google offers with the numbers that are not even numbers," said a source.



"It was clear they were competing with the distance between Earth and sun. One of them was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then, when it reached $ 3 billion, the supply of pi, "the source said, adding that the offer was $ 3,141,590,000.



Yes, the feet offer. Really not sure what to do with that. One might expect that Google would be able to "sign" for Geeks their feelings on whole process (of which the company was very clear on all the time - no want