{"id":1653,"date":"2007-08-13T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T09:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/13\/dorky-poll-e-or\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T09:47:32","slug":"dorky-poll-e-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/08\/13\/dorky-poll-e-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: e or \u03c0?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A simple question today:<\/p>\n

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Which do you prefer, e<\/i> or π?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They’re both irrational, they’re both “about three,” and of course they’re related by Euler’s formula, but they’re very different. One is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, the other is the base for the exponential function.<\/p>\n

You can only pick one: which one is it?<\/p>\n

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I think I’ll go with e<\/i>. Nothing against π, but I’ve spent a lot of time working with differential equations, and you just have to love a function that is its own derivative.<\/p>\n

And nobody has ever been dorky enough to attempt to show off by memorizing the first hundred digits of e<\/i>.<\/p>\n

What’s your favorite irrational constant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A simple question today: Which do you prefer, e or π? They’re both irrational, they’re both “about three,” and of course they’re related by Euler’s formula, but they’re very different. One is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, the other is the base for the exponential function. You can only… Continue reading Dorky Poll: e or \u03c0?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}