Google uses the number 26 as its hidden characters
Today Holding Alphabet, which is best known by the name of its subsidiary Google, announced its financial results for the 3rd quarter of this year. As it turned out, things are holding well. Revenue was $ 18.7 billion, which is 13% more than last year.
Shares of the holding increased 11% after the announcement of financial results. Their growth has influenced more by the fact that the Alphabet has announced that he intends to buy back its shares from the market, with the amount to be spent for it, was quite unusual - $ 5,099,019 513.59
Google's buyback is a weirdly precise number: $ 5099019513.59. Some sort of puzzle ... Something to do with Alphabet? 26 letters? anyone ...? - Tim Bradshaw (tim) October 22, 2015 blockquote>
As usual on the Internet, did not have long to wonder, however, is a mystery itself it was not very complicated. One of the authors of Forbes George Anders quickly learned that 5099019513.59 - is the square root of 26, multiplied by 1 billion. This number - 26 - as it is known, is the number of letters in the alphabet of the English language, which makes a direct parallel with the name of the holding Alphabet. Interestingly, the recent holding became the owner of the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, which also contains 26 letters of the alphabet.
lexnfx It's the square root of 26 e18th. Those Google guys! They have so much fun with numbers.- George Anders (GeorgeAnders) October 22, 2015 blockquote> recently in Google even more convoluted way продемонстрировали the original sense of humor. October 21, the day of arrival to the Future Marty McFly, the official Twitter Tweet Google appeared, which, judging by the text contained a reference to the theme Gmail. However, when you click on the link, download a pdf-file with the description of the mysterious Flux project, and a warning not to disseminate the text of the file is Google. Thus giving the impression that the file is issued "by mistake»:
Special delivery: 15 new Gmail themes to make your inbox more awesome → https://t.co/wdv0WCsAUB - Google (@ google) October 21, 2015 blockquote> In the study of Flux project revealed that he uses a "proprietary technology for instant hronokompressii move user at the selected time and place. " Simply put, in Google have developed a "time machine", and, judging from the drawings, it really looks like a car. Moreover, the company already has 7 prototypes with which over the next year to be performed test trials.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/264542/
