How did Alphabet come up with the weirdly specific number of $5.099 billion for its buyback of class C shares? By taking the square root of 26, which not-so-coincidentally is the number of letters in 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 The big stock… Read More...