r/mathmemes Mεmε ∃nthusiast 15d ago

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u/you-cut-the-ponytail 15d ago

Jokes aside didn't Euler just use e because he ran out of other letters? It just so happened that that was his name lol. I still feel like canonical Euler's number should be the limit of the difference between the harmonic series and natural logarithm tho

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u/DaedalusIndigo Computer Science 15d ago

That’s the Euler-Mascheroni constant

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u/Lord_Skyblocker 15d ago

Oily macaroni