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Some Interesting Facts About Euler’s Number

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 34 Issue 1, May 1997

36 – 38

Some Interesting Facts About Euler’s Number

Sandra M. Pulver

Euler’s number e, the base of natural logarithms, has various unusual properties which seem to be possessed by actions occurring in nature. It has an intimate relationship with natural phenomena such as radioactive decay, exponential growth and so on.