From the Wired analysis of Google’s upcoming IPO:
Geek humor: If you take a close look at the form Google filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the exact value of its planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars, which some would immediately recognize as the mathematical constant e.
E, for those not blessed with a Ph.D. and a job at Google, is Euler’s number, which is used as the base for natural logarithms.
My roommate, with neither Ph.D. nor Google job, might have known that. Math majors are a strange breed.
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