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Written by Peter Almberg   

On Sept. 15, 2005, Google offered exactly 14159265 shares of Class A stock, which is the same as the first eight digits of Pi.

On Sept. 15, 2005, Google offered exactly 14159265 shares of Class A stock, which is the same as the first eight digits or pi after the decimal point (Markoff 2005).

The formula for the volume of a cylinder leads to the mathematical joke: "What is the volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z?" Answer: pi z z a. This result is sometimes known as the second pizza theorem.

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