According to the ESRB, an E rating indicates that the game may contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and/or infrequent use of mild language. For example:
- Tim: Do you know a good E-rated game I could get my nephew for his birthday?
- Ralf: Forget the E rating! You can't go wrong with Donkey Kong!
Ecstasy
The letter E is also used in speech and text to refer to the recreational synthetic drug ecstasy. For example:- Vicki: Can you get me some E?
- Rennie: Of course. How much do you want?
Summary of Key Points
"Everyone" is the most common definition for E in gaming related communications on apps such as Discord, TeamSpeak and Telegram."Ecstasy" is another common definition for E, especially among drug users.
It’s obvious that compounding more frequently results in more money in the bank. So it is natural to ask whether compounding at every instant in time (that is, continuously) leads to an infinite amount in the bank.
To answer this question we need to evaluate
This quantity turns out again to be
Now
This series is convergent, and evaluating the sum far enough to give no change in the fourth decimal place (this occurs after the seventh term is added) gives an approximation for
It was that great mathematician Leonhard Euler who discovered the number e and calculated its value to 23 decimal places. It is often called Euler's number and, like pi, is a transcendental number (this means it is not the root of any algebraic equation with integer coefficients). Its properties have led to it as a "natural" choice as a logarithmic base, and indeed e is also known as the natural base or Naperian base (after John Napier).
There is the remarkable property that if the function
In fact, it is true that given the equation:
then a solution for
It’s also possible to relate the general exponential function,
Differentiating with respect to
which tells us that the general exponential relation,
(Actually it happens to be the only type of solution to this important equation.)
It is this equation that emerges naturally when attempting to model various processes.
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About the author
He graduated in 1977 with a BSc Honours in Applied Physics from the University of Lancaster, and obtained an MSc in Medical Physics from the University of Leeds in 1987.
He is interested in various theoretical aspects of radiation and radiological physics, with an interest in mathematical modelling in general.