A year after its blockbuster debut as a public company, Google Inc. said Thursday it plans to offer another 14.2 million shares, currently worth about $4 billion, as competition heats up with rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
But here's what I found interesting interesting. The exact number of shares to be sold -- 14,159,265 -- happens to be the eight digits beyond the decimal point in the mathematical value Pi. Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were raised by math teachers and studied computer science at Stanford University. (I liked it, but fuddy duddy Kudlow didn't. 8)
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