Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

napier's constant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English

Syllables: napier's -con-stant
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Etymology

Named after Scottish landowner, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Napier (1550–1617), who did, however, not discover it, although natural logarithms (discovered by him) have this number as their base.

Questions

What does napier's constant mean?: Euler's number
Where does napier's constant come from?: Named after Scottish landowner, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Napier (1550–1617), who did, however, not discover it, although natural logarithms (discovered by him) have this number as their base.

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