Napierian

[ nuh-peer-ee-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1810–20; Napier + -ian

The Napierian coffee machine has enjoyed great popularity in England.

This is the largest Napierian canon that has ever been published.

The symbol e for the base of the Napierian logarithms was introduced by Euler .

Similarly the continued fraction given by Euler as equivalent to (e - 1) (e being the base of Napierian logarithms), viz.

The logarithms are strictly Napierian, and the arrangement is identical with that in the canon of 1614.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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