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I understand the special properties of e^x, how the value is the same as the area under the curve and so on, but like, why that number specifically? How the fuck did Euler figure that out?
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Take the derivative of the Taylor expansion brainlet
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>>8865020
It was discovered when playing around with the limits of series that arise in finance.
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Was Euler on the spectrum?
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>>8865162
Everyone unironically doing anything beyond calculus I is on the spectrum.
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>>8865048

derive the taylor expansion without the derivative first.
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By calculating an intrest wrongly
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It's not that hard.
>ancient brainlet trying to differentiate exponential function
[eqn]f'(x)=\lim_{h \rightarrow 0}\frac{f(x+h)-f(x)}{h} = a^x \lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{a^h-1}{h}[/eqn]
which naturally begs the question how the limit
[eqn]\lim_{h \rightarrow 0} \frac{a^h-1}{h}[/eqn]
behaves.

It's really not that hard to guess nonrigorously that there's a number a such that the above limit is 1, and that the value of a is
[eqn]\lim_{t\rightarrow 0}(1 + t)^{1/t}[/eqn]
because thats like the perfect thing to cancel out the other shit, assuming nonrigorously that we can interchange the limits and all that shit.
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I don't know.
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>>8865154
https://youtu.be/AuA2EAgAegE?t=3m
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>>8865020
Look at the definition of the exp() function. It is in terms of a series.
If you calculate the derivative of each you will get the same series again.
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