[kde-doc-english]kcalc documentation

Michael J. Korman michael.korman at uconn.edu
Wed Feb 27 15:58:41 CET 2002


On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:36:17AM +0100, Federico Cozzi wrote:
> Well, after a quick search with Google, not exactly, although he got quite 
> close. Anyway, "Euler number" is misleading, since Euler discovered other 
> "numbers" (e.g. Euler's gamma).
> 
> Could you please change it to something which does not refer to 
> mathematicians, e.g. "e, the base of natural logarithms"?

I do not think it is confusing to call it Euler's number, as that is
what it is commonly called.  After all, the letter 'e' was chosen
because it is the first letter in his name.

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