Version 1 of e

Updated 2004-09-22 13:32:00 by suchenwi

Another irrational number. Available in expr as exp(1).

base of natural logarithms; useful since d/dx(e^x) = e^x.

And Integral(1/x) = ln(x) Integral(1/x) from 1 to e is ln(e) = 1.

2.718281828459... (see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/e.html ) Note it does not recur, despite repeating 1828 twice in the first 10 digits.