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Happened last year but I think that was the first time: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/technology/google-q3-earnings-alphabet.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.c

Happened last year but I think that was the first time: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/technology/google-q3-earnings-alphabet.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/technology/google-q3-earni... Does anyone know what the number $7,019,340,976.83 refers to? The previous buyback amount referred to the square root of 26, the number of letters in the alphabet.

xyzzyz 10y ago
Looks like it's 10^6 * 26^e.
- spynxic 10y ago
  How did you do that??? That's amazingly accurate!
  - xyzzyz 10y ago
    A colleague next desk saw this on some internal group, and told me. (I work for the Alphabet's main Bet)
    - spynxic 10y ago
      That's sheds light on an entire branch of functions for representing real numbers that I had no idea about. Thanks to someone for being creative!
- dorianm 10y ago
  Awesome! If you to try it out in ruby: 10**6 * 26**Math::E => 7019340976.833626 Pretty accurate!