Does anybody happen to know the appropriate Unicode character for the
base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through the Unicode spec I
found a number of candidates in various blocks including 0065, 212E,
and 212F but none of which identified themselves as this number in
particular.
While hunting down the candidates I noticed that 0x2107, a Latin
capital letter open E, is named the "EULER CONSTANT". However a quick
Google search seems to indicate that the Euler constant is
0.577215... generated from a different series and is normally
represented with a lower case gamma, not an e of any kind. Is this a
mistake in the Unicode data?
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