Why is pi so revered while nobody gives a shit about e? I have

>>8463579
e is pretty revered among college students. Probably more so than pi. But pi is obviously slightly more accessible to the public so outside of college you hear more about it.

the first digits of e are actually easy to remember
2.718281828...

You can't bake an e on e day fucktard

>>8463579
>Why is pi so revered
by pop sci faggots maybe, e is much more useful once you're past trig

e is already used more than pi i believe.

>>8463645
watch me.

>>8463645
Kek

>>8463579
Even an idiot knows what a circle is. How would you explain e to the layperson?

>>8463645
you can take e on e day though

>>8463597
lol can't be unseen!

>>8464526
rate of reproduction

>>8463597
especially since 1828 is Leo Tolstoy's year of birth! So even easier to remember

>>8464612
underrated

>>8463719
But only until you enter hyper trig.

>>8464526

It's the rate at which a layperson gets fucked by people who aren't fucking idiots over time.

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>>8463579
>I have never seen 50 digits of e plastered along the wall of a math office
Are you saying there are 50 digits of pi plastered along the wall of a math office somewhere?

>>8464744
>>8463579
the hell is a 'math office' even?

Why no one cares about G? I mean you feel gravity all the time yet you do not revere G? More people should care about my favourite constant.

>>8464764
So now it's about what you want?

>>8463579
My calc teacher actually went on about this. He went on about how e is more useful than pi or something.

pi is cool
e is the greatest

>>8464772
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e is real. all arround you, there is e. a formidable number is that e.

>>8463645
t, computational chemists

meanwhile in the real labs....

e is less random than pi. In binary, pi seems to have an equal number of 1s and 0s, whereas e seems to have more 1s.

And yes, I know the number of each is a standard infinity.

>>8463579
I prefer i

Yeah, but e^(i*pi)=-1 so I think all of the above is the correct answer.

>>8463645
/thread

We got what we came for boys. Time to roll out.

>>8464526
limit of the compound interest equation is literally high school math.

>>8465873

True, but π has a more immediately and easily conveyed definitional geometric significance, which is both common knowledge, and furthermore requires absolutely zero knowledge of calculus/analysis, or any concept directly related to calculus (limits) to grasp.

e's visualization, "definition" etc commonly requires either some iterative process which can be tedious to show pictorially, or else requires a sophistication beyond drawing a circle.

I suddenly remember learning calculus for the first time, and the teacher asking me to provide a definition of e. I replied with the limit as n goes to infinity of (1 + 1/n)^n (as I'd learned it at the time in a previous class), which I can specifically remember the teacher rejecting in favor of a specifically calculus-based form. I don't recall which one he provided as a "definition" at the time but I'm pretty sure it was the integral from 1 to e of 1/t with respect to t, where this is set equal to one. It might not have been that form, but it was a form that required understanding of calculus as-such, whereas I was just now learning calculus for the first time, so somewhere in my brain I wanted to tell him that what he was asking of me was backwards in the sense that it requires a knowledge of calculus that I don't yet have, (we were somewhere in the midst of differential calculus I want to say, not having yet touched integragtion; I may be mis-remembering this) but I held my tongue.

I get now that what he was really doing was in some sense "picking" a definition which was most germane to the subject matter (whereas he might use another form while teaching another class), but I have since felt vindicated in that (per wiki anyway) the first historical discussions of the constant do indeed use the version that I'd given. And none of this even touched the factorial series, which seems better anyway.

>>8464612
ayyyyy

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>>8463579

>>8463579
Because e is something we define to fit an observation. Pi is an incidental fact.

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>>8464744
There are way more than 50 forming a spiral on the wall of my faculty.