NATURAL LOGS

THE NATURAL LOG FACTS

• First studied by Leonhard Euler.
• Also called Napier's constant, because his work implied natural logs as early as 1614.
• The letter 'e' being the first letter of his surname is a coincidence.

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• Sebastian Wedeniwski calculated the first 869,894,101 numbers of the natural log.
• The value of e is Approximately 2.718281828459045.
• Euler proved that 'e' is an irrational number.
• 'E' is transcendental meaning it isn't a root of an algebraic equation.
• This was proved by Charles Hermite in 1873.

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• John Napier also published various papers on logarithms in the 1600s.
• One of Napier's goals in using logarithms was to make the calculations astronomers made easier on them.