Have you ever been curious about why the number e is so popular in math? Euler’s number, which is an infinitely long decimal, close to 2.71828, pops up naturally in a surprisingly broad range of ...

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Mathematics is full of numbers that seem to keep popping up out of nowhere. Take pi, for instance, which appears in pretty much everything. Here's another one: Euler's constant. Also called the ...