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“Google was bidding with numbers that were not even numbers,” one of the sources said. “It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the ear
by schraeds 15y ago
“Google was bidding with numbers that were not even numbers,” one of the sources said. “It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi,” the source said, adding the bid was $3.14159 billion. “Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.”
Google thought they were playing a game, lost, and has been crying about it ever since.
- jonknee 15y agoPointing out the ridiculousness of a system isn't the same thing as crying. Neither is making a serious play in the space with the purchase of MMI. Google can simultaneously believe the system is broken and play the system until it is changed.
- bitwize 15y ago“Google was bidding with numbers that were not even numbers,” one of the sources said. "We bid the sum of --" pinky to corner of mouth "-- NaN billion dollars."
- wes-exp 15y agoI lol'd. Thank you.
- monochromatic 15y ago> bidding with numbers that were not even numbers What does this even mean?