I was adding a book to my Amazon wish list. I noticed an indicator noting there as an "A9 Instant Reward Active". Cool, what's that? So I clicked and learned users of A9 can get Π / 2 % off their next order. What a goofy number to chose.
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I think they want to develop some following among geeks who would be turned on by something expressed with a math formula. I can almost smell the air in the room where the marketing committee met to decide this.