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In The Book on Numbers by John Conway and Richard Guy the number e is persistently called Napier's number. I know that John Napier has more or less discovered logarithms, but is this really the correct name? --JanHidders

I don't think that's too common; Weisstein lists it as "Napier's Constant", but the main entry is under "e". Encyclopedia Britannica doesn't list "Napier's Constant" or "Napier's Constant" at all. Most people call it "base of the natural logarithm" I believe.

e is still called Euler's number in many texts too introductory to worry about confusion with γ - maybe that should be mentioned?

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