[kde-doc-english]kcalc documentation
Thibaut Cousin
cousin at kde.org
Wed Feb 27 16:06:08 CET 2002
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Le Mercredi 27 Février 2002 15:58, Michael J. Korman a écrit :
> > 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.
I agree. As a mathematic student I know e as the Euler number. The other
things bearing his name are not numbers (Euler's gamma is a function, not a
number).
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Thibaut Cousin
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