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by digler999 3475 days ago
I still remember reading the article about one of google's (?) early recruitment campaigns, circa 2001: an ad in the train station that said www.e^(5,000,000 digits ).com, so you would only know the URL if you were nerdy enough to know how to calculate the non-repeating non-terminating decimal. The webpage then solicited them for hiring. I still think that was a cool idea.

Edit: it wasn't e^ of anything, it was like the [5million, 5millionth + 10]-digit-of-e.com

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that's funny because I dont remember it that way, but it definitely could have been that one. Or maybe it was part of a campaign of many.