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Which one do you like pi or e


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conics2008

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I like pi, because it can be used everywhere.. eg area,volume,trig,graphs,complex numbers and many more.

Plus it also looks nice..
 

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e, coz I hate having to change radians into degrees/switching to radian mode on my calculator when pi is involved
 

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They've got a book dedicated to it? Lol. Edit: My bad it's a video...even more sad.



Pi ftw.
 
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pi because i knew about it before e. still i dont know whats e lol..
 
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been accustomed to using it after all the statistics I've been doing :)
 

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Forbidden. said:
Euler's number, the inverse of logex (or ln x) ... part of Euler's formula e = cos θ + i sin θ ...
e is a number, not the inverse of a function (especially one whose definition relies on the definition of e :)). I guess the most intuitive way to 'discover' the number e is to consider the derivative of the functions 2^x and 3^x. You'll be left with some constant, < 1 and > 1 respectively, times your original function. So we reason there must be some number between 2 and 3, call it e, such that the function e^x leaves you with the constant 1 times your original function when you differentiate.

P.S. I cringe everytime someone calls it Euler's number.
 

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e = 1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + 1/4! + ............
e = lim n ->∞ (1 + 1/n)n

π = 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 - 4/7 + 4/9 - 4/11 + ..........

Any more?
 
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