Why Do We Really Use Euler’s Number For Growth?
Why use ‘e’ (2.71828…) instead of ‘2’ or ‘3’ or any other constant?
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8 min readMar 1, 2022
Euler’s number is synonymous with natural growth and decay. Whenever we talk about phenomena such as population growth or investment returns, the associated mathematical formulations involve ‘e’ — Euler’s number.