A Look at the Zany Math-Based Bids Google Made While Failing to Buy Those Nortel Patents
When Apple , Microsoft , Google and others go bidding on a treasure trove of Nortel wireless patents this past week , the search giant from California made a serial of , well , unconventional bids that had observers flummox . Pi . Brun ’s constant quantity . The Meissel - Mertens constant . An astronomical unit ( 93 million mile to the layman ) . Are these the bidding of a serious society , a ruse to throw rival for a loop , or a sign that Google was becoming bored with the outgrowth on the whole ?...