[kde-doc-english]kcalc documentation

[Federico Cozzi]

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Thibaut Cousin wrote:

> > > 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).

Sorry for spreading any misinformation, this clearly is a cultural issue 
and I ask you not to change the original document, I will change the 
Italian translation.

<offtopic>
I'm studying maths at the university, and am sure that here in Italy "e" 
is credited to Neper, not Euler; on the other hand, "Euler's number", 
which we write $\gamma$ (and is completely different from the Euler's 
function, which we write $\Gamma$) is the limit
$\gamma = \lim_{n \to +\infty} ((\sum_{i=1}^n 1/i) - \log(n))$
which converges to 0.577215..., a number which is not known to be 
rational!
(Even Google agrees with me, "euler gamma constant" finds this same 
information)
</offtopic>

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Federico Cozzi                             federico.cozzi at sns.it
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