Is this legal????
Because if it is, I WILL USE CALCULUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no more now
DAILY DOSE OF MATH - e (Euler’s /oy-lers/ number)
Our Universe is ruled by a list of mathematical equations - many of them involving constants, such as Pi, Planck’s Constant, g, and e. But what is e? Everyone associates it with math, but many people have no idea what it is.
Usually, e is defined as:
While that may seem really fancy, the concept behind it is fairly simple. As the value of n increases in that function, all the way to infinity - your answer becomes closer to e. So if you plug in 1,000,000 as n - you will add a relatively small value to 1 (because 1/1,000,000 is so small) and then it will be raised to the 1,000,000th power! While this may seem huge, the value is still close to 1 - so multiplying it by itself will not increase it’s value by much. e is approximately equal to 2.71828.
Sometimes called Euler’s number, e was first studied by Leonard Euler in the 1720s - though its existence was known over a century beforehand. If you are familiar with logarithms, e is the base of the natural log (ln.) Most commonly, e is found when dealing with compound interest - the interest starts off at a low amount but gradually increases.
If you have taken Calculus, a fascinating note is that the derivative of ex is, that’s right, ex. Because of it’s interesting exponential growth shape, ex is it’s own derivative!
e also makes many appearances in Nuclear Science, because the gradual behavior of a substance’s half-life can be explained very well using this constant. Quantumaniac
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I mean, he should be flattered that I think his problems are the great question of life, the universe and everything, amirite?
