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The Natural Logarithmic Base

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Visit this site: http://www.mathsoft.com/mathsoft_resources/mathsoft_constants/Well_known_Constants/1936.asp
Author:Steven Finch, MathSoft Engineering & Education Inc.
Description: A limit that shows "the outcome of a fierce tug-of-war": on one side, the exponent explodes to infinity; on the other, 1+x rushes toward the multiplicative identity 1. A discussion of the mathematics of the number e, with print and Web references. Also available as MathML.
Levels: High School (9-12), College
Languages: English
Resource Types: Articles, Bibliographies
Math Topics: e

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