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I really love this site. Ages ago, I was teaching a kid about logs and exponentials, I realised I know about 'e' via the formula, but didn't have a visceral fee
by sriram_malhar 6y ago
I really love this site. Ages ago, I was teaching a kid about logs and exponentials, I realised I know about 'e' via the formula, but didn't have a visceral feel for why that formula came to be. Khalid's explanation was the best.
- User23 6y agoI got that same result from the book Visual Complex Analysis. In retrospect it seems stupid, but until then I actually believed, to the extent I considered it at all, that it was just a happy coincidence that e^x is its own first derivative.