bluescat48 responds to me:
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The number you gave is the value of e
How nice to see somebody who knows that. Some people memorized pi. I memorized
e. Pi is a button on my calculator, but
e is not (I have since acquired a better calculator.) You can get it from using the "
ex" function, but not all calculators can do that so it was just easier to memorize the digits.
Indeed, to one significant figure, an "accurate" measurement of both pi and e would be "3." But "3" isn't a very "precise" measurement of either. "3.00000" is extremely precise (because all those zeroes after the decimal point are significant), but it isn't very accurate with regard to pi or
e.
ei + 1 = 0
Because of that, all of reality follows.
Rrhain
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