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The number “ e ”: Concept, definition, calculation, and accurate formula
Author(s) -
Fernández Blanco Roberto
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.12052
Subject(s) - process (computing) , process safety , value (mathematics) , constant (computer programming) , mathematics , euler's formula , engineering , calculus (dental) , computer science , reliability engineering , statistics , work in process , mathematical analysis , operations management , programming language , medicine , dentistry
This article demonstrates a new method to determine the digits for the value of “ e ” Napier's constant or Euler's number. The estimate works out to a single equation. In process safety, several failure probability models use values of “ e ” to a power. Thus, novel methods to estimate the value of “ e ” may be of interest to a process safety engineer. © 2019 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Process Saf Prog 38: e12052, 2019