Fuzzy maths - Google.(Company overview)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 13, 2006 | Copyright information

In a few short years, Google has turned from a simple and popular company into a complicated and controversial one

MATHEMATICALLY confident drivers stuck in the usual jam on highway 101 through Silicon Valley were recently able to pass time contemplating a billboard that read: "{lcub}first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e{rcub}.com." The number in question, 7427466391, is a sequence that starts at the 101st digit of e, a constant that is the base of the natural logarithm. The select few who worked this out and made it to the right website then encountered a ...

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