Napierian
[ nuh-peer-ee-uhn ]
adjective
of, relating to, or formulated by John Napier.
Origin of Napierian
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How to use Napierian in a sentence
The Napierian coffee machine has enjoyed great popularity in England.
All About Coffee | William H. UkersThis 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.
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