English Explanatory Dictionary

Napier's constant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Euler's number

Word forms

Napier's constant

Etymology

Named after Scottish landowner, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Napier (1550–1617), who did, however, not discover it, although natural logarithms (discovered by him) have this number as their base.

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