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September 13, 2012 05:47 pm GMT
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Apple, Youre the Worlds Most Valuable Company. Make Something New
Something truly astonishing happened in San Francisco Wednesday. And it had nothing to do with the iPhone 5 launch.
In the blue above the city, three skywriting jets hired by an artist and a design company wrote the first 10,000 numbers of Pi -- yes, 3.14159 and 9,994 more -- in dot-matrix numerals a quarter-mile high.
Carefully coordinating each plane to write every third character, they looped the number-string 150 miles around the Bay Area, a feat that made geeks everywhere gasp and think of three more characters: O, M and G.
Meanwhile, down on the ground, a technology company released a phone that was a little bit taller.
I don't mean to begrudge Apple's big day. T…
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