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The Day of the Number e

Day of the Number Pi, Pythagoras Theorem Day... The Day of the Number   ๐‘’  Let's assign a day to the number e, oh well, why not ๐Ÿ˜€ Not one, let's assign it two days! That's right! You have heard it well. Depending on where you are from, and hence in which format you are writing the date, we can distinguish two such days. Some mathematicians, (including me ๐Ÿ˜€) in order to promote and popularize math, have taken the next two days as a Day of Number e:   27th of  January or 27.01 European format DD.MM.YYYY   7th of February or 02.07  North America's format MM.DD.YYYY Its first decimals are  2. 71828 18284 59045 23536 02874 71352 66249 77572 47093 69999  95749 66967 62772 40766 30353 54759 45713 82178 52516 64274 .... (these are 'JUST" the first 100), and if you want to check more of them, click here  here  for the first 10,000. The number  ะต , is irrational, that said, it can not be represented in a format of a fraction. However,...