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English
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.
Proper noun
Napier's constant
- (mathematics) Euler's number