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Daily Archive July 10th, 2019

We can’t tell you why you would want to memorize e to 15 places, but we can tell you how

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MEMORIZE e TO 15 PLACES We recently asked a large group of people the question In the number e, how many places to the right of the decimal does the string ‘1828459045’ first occur? Many people replied “two”, which is wrong, but indicates that many people know that e is equal to 2.71828something Assuming you, […]