The DU Lounge
Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhy is "2.718" not as popular as "3.1416"?
I mean "3.1416" get its own day and is celebrated, but nothing for "2.718"?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Let us be transcendental in this matter. This subject is not imaginary.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)pi(e).
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hunter
(38,310 posts)Most people look at things like this...
... and scratch their heads.
Start talking about Euler's Identity being a tautology, and they will think you are nuts.
But she is a pretty thing. Hubba hubba.
Trained as an evolutionary biologist, I'm comfortable with tautology. It seems to be the way our human minds and our languages, even our mathematical languages, work.
Nevertheless, someone who understands radius and circumference in our society is smarter than the average Republican congressman. We The People who know pi.
Scary thought, that.
But not knowing e doesn't necessarily make a person innumerate. It's more like someone who hasn't seen some popular movie or has no idea who Miley Cyrus is because they've been busy pursuing their own arts.
lastlib
(23,213 posts)Maybe Pi looks better in a swimsuit?
Why don't we organize a committee and prepare to celebrate "e-Day" on Feb. 7, 2018?
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Give you a hint, it's not "pie'.
And e-Day sounds like a great idea.
cloudbase
(5,513 posts)lastlib
(23,213 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)biological, but the idea decayed before it fully took form.
progressoid
(49,978 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)It's irrational.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)2.718 is the most popular letter in the English Language.
Wolf
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)It's not natural.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Where can I get a shirt with Leonard Euler wearing stunner shades, with the caption "what do you mean we can't call it Molly's number"
qwlauren35
(6,147 posts)But really, pi gets introduced earlier, and has to do with circles, which are easy to grasp.
e is more complicated, gets introduced later, is associated with higher math, and even though it also occurs in nature, it's more associated with physics than simple geometry.
BTW, I hate e and logs and all that stuff.