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Ramanujan's constant

Ramanujan's constant proper noun: the transcendental number e^(π√), an almost integer, discovered in 1859 by mathematician Charles Hermite.

Proper noun

Ramanujan's constant

  1. The transcendental number e^(π√), an almost integer, discovered in 1859 by mathematician Charles Hermite.

Origin of Ramanujan's constant

Named after Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920).

Questions about Ramanujan's constant

What does Ramanujan's constant mean?
Ramanujan's constant means the transcendental number e^(π√), an almost integer, discovered in 1859 by mathematician Charles Hermite.
What part of speech is Ramanujan's constant?
Ramanujan's constant is a proper noun.

Words near Ramanujan's constant in the dictionary

  1. Ramanujan graphs
  2. Ramanujan prime
  3. Ramanujan primes
  4. Ramanujan summation
  5. Ramanujan theta function
  6. Ramanujan's constant
  7. Ramanujan's sum
  8. Ramanujan's sums
  9. Ramanujan-Hardy number
  10. Ramanujan-Hardy numbers
  11. Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture

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