Why are e and the natural logarithm, rather than other bases, used in so many situations?

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Basti Funck · Answer 1 · 2024-01-14T18:59:50+0000

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The three reasons are: (1) e is a quantity which arises frequently and unavoidably in nature, (2) natural logarithms have the simplest derivatives of all the systems of logarithms, and (3) in the calculation of logarithms to any base, logarithms to the base e are first calculated, then multiplied by a constant

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Why are e and the natural logarithm, rather than other bases, used in so many situations?

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