-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mercredi 27 F?vrier 2002 15:58, Michael J. Korman a ?crit : > > 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). - -- Thibaut Cousin e-mail: cousin at kde.org web : http://fr.i18n.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8fPXiv1vqsTa1E4oRAjG5AJ9qvEHwyEXDPaIRN+tjnGp8WwOrCgCfV+V3 YT4MuN5IXdySSF3UU/iZqbw= =TfQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
