Traditionally, Euler's constant is 0.57721 56649 01532 86060 65120 90082 40243 10421 59335 93992... see wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Mascheroni_constant>. The constant e is sometimes called Euler's number -- shouldn't that be Napier or Bernoulli in a pc world -- but I think e is more universally understood and the distinction between "constant" and "number" is rather obscure. Chuck
as long as we all agree that e has a value of 2.71828 18284 59045 23536, its just a matter of semantics. the constant you reference is indicated by greek lower gamma Chris On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Charles R Harris < charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
Traditionally, Euler's constant is 0.57721 56649 01532 86060 65120 90082 40243 10421 59335 93992... see wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Mascheroni_constant>. The constant e is sometimes called Euler's number -- shouldn't that be Napier or Bernoulli in a pc world -- but I think e is more universally understood and the distinction between "constant" and "number" is rather obscure.
Chuck
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
Traditionally, Euler's constant is 0.57721 56649 01532 86060 65120 90082 40243 10421 59335 93992...
You're right, Euler constant is generally gamma. Euler number is not that great either (euler numbers in geometry for example), so I just renamed it to base of natural logarithm, David
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