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The key breakthrough occurred in 1873, when Charles Hermite devised an ingenious technique to prove that e, the base of the natural logarithm, is transcendental.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 June 2023
Then click the natural logarithm (or ln) function.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 13 July 2020
This geometric structure is closely connected to important ideas in trigonometry, like the angle sum and difference formulas for sine and cosine, the theory of rotations of the plane, and e, the base of the natural logarithm function.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
This is despite the fact that the actual number of primes will always equal an integer, while on the other side of the asymptotic equality, the fraction involving the natural logarithm function could equal any value on the real number line.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 July 2020
The chart below plots the natural logarithm of total cases on the vertical axis with the time index on the horizontal.
—Rupa Subramanya, Quartz India, 13 Apr. 2020
The actual percent is 1/e, where the base is the natural logarithm.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2020
Also called the Euler-Mascheroni constant, it is defined as the limiting difference between the natural logarithm the harmonic series.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 5 Oct. 2016
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First Known Use
1746, in the meaning defined above
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“Natural logarithm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20logarithm. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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