As we're all well aware by now, Google did not win the rights to the 6,000+ Nortel wireless and mobile patents. Instead, a consortium featuring many of their main rivals did. That has to sting. But as more details emerge about the auction itself, it sure looks as if Google wasn't taking the entire thing too seriously. And that's too bad. Because Android may be royally screwed without those patents. Specifically, Nadia Damouni of Reuters reports today that following their initial "stalking horse" bid to get the ball rolling, Google put forth bids of�$1,902,160,540, $2,614,972,128 ? and�$3.14159 billion. If those numbers look familiar, it's because you're a nerd.�Brun's constant, Meissel-Mertens constant, and yes, Pi. That's how Google was bidding on perhaps the most important auction they've ever been involved in.
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