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An Intuitive Guide To Exponential Functions & E

Posted 05.01.2007, under Math

e has always bothered me — not the letter, but the mathematical constant. What does it really mean?

Math books and even my beloved wikipedia describe e using obtuse jargon:

The mathematical constant e is the base of the natural logarithm.

And when you look up natural logarithm you get:

The natural logarithm, formerly known as the hyperbolic logarithm, is the logarithm to the …

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