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13 clever jokes from Google that probably went right over your head by Avery Hartmans on Jan 30, 2017, 10:38 AM Advertisement
 Google frequently makes us giggle with the geeky ways it handles things. Like the time it rewarded the man who managed to buy the "Google.com" domain for one minute: Google gave researcher Sanmay Ved $6,006.13, choosing that specific amount because it spells out Google, numerically — "squint a little and you'll see it!" the company said. This kind of quirky antic has become almost par for the course for the search giant, which has long been down for a little nerdy fun. "Googleyness" is all about intellectual creativity, after all. Here are some of our other favorite times that Google did or responded to something in a particularly silly way. Jillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this story. SEE ALSO: The meteoric rise of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in photos It all started with the IPO. Google used a funny string of numbers in its initial S-1 filing for how much it hoped to raise.  The first 10 digits of the mathematical constant "e" are 2,718,281,828.
Then, a year later, Google collected a bit more than $4 billion by selling 14,159,265 million of its shares.  Get it? Because "14,159,265" are the first eight digits after the decimal point in the number pi.
The search giant showed off its numerical whimsy again in 2011, when it bid $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128 for some wireless patents.  In case those numbers don't instantly ring a bell: They're Brun's constant and the Meissel-Mertens constant, respectively. Google didn't end up winning the patents, but it definitely mystified other bidders.
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