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Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

e: Euler's Number

Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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There are an infinite number of numbers, but some numbers are more important than others.  One number, which might just be the most important number, lies hidden in a wide variety of things in the natural world. It can be found in everything from the mathematics of radioactive decay to population growth and even compound interest.  The number even turns out to have a central role in calculus and mathematics's most elegant equation. Learn more about e, also known as Euler’s Number, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors BetterHelp Visit BetterHelp.com/everywhere today to get 10% off your first month ButcherBox Sign up today at butcherbox.com/daily and use code daily to choose your free steak for a year and get $20 off."  Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are an infinite number of numbers, but some numbers are more important than others.

0:06.0

One number which just might be the most important number lies hidden in a wide variety of things in the natural world.

0:12.0

It can be found in everything from the mathematics of radio. in a wide variety of things in the natural world.

0:12.6

It can be found in everything from the mathematics of radioactive decay

0:16.0

to population growth and even compound interest.

0:19.6

The number turns out to have a central role in calculus

0:22.3

and mathematics most elegant equation.

0:25.0

Learn more about E, also known as Euler's number, on this episode of Everything Everywhere

0:30.5

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If you were to make a list of the most important or at least the most interesting numbers, most of those numbers would be pretty simple to grasp. One is an extremely important

1:25.8

number and it's the most fundamental number there is. Likewise, zero is an

1:29.7

important number that's easy to comprehend. It took several thousand years for the idea of

1:33.9

zero to catch on but it eventually did and today everybody can grasp the concept of

1:38.3

zero. Other important numbers aren't quite as obvious but they can still be

1:42.4

grasped easily.

1:44.1

The square root of two is important.

1:45.8

Its existence supposedly cause the destruction of the cult of Pythagoras, but you can grasp

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