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From: Ed Johnson
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1992 20:12

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In my reading I come across the constant "e" (about 2.7183) used in algorithms,
such as for poisson distribution, but I have never seen reference to the source
of this constant. My assumption is that there is a story behind it, probably
similar to pi's relationship to the area of a circle. Am I correct, and if so,
what is background to "e"?

Ed Johnson

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Subject:      What's e?